Mystery Skulls' New Album 'One Of Us' Out Today
By: Caryn Robbins Aug. 04, 2017
Genre-bending artist, producer, and singer Mystery Skulls today releases his second album, One of Us, via Warner Bros. Records. For this follow-up to his 2014 breakout album Forever, a #1 hit on the iTunes dance chart, Mystery Skulls built upon his sonic tapestry of soul, house, disco and R&B, while zeroing in on a single "Big Brother"-esque concept. To celebrate the album release, Mystery Skulls has today announced a fall headline tour for 2017, kicking off in his hometown of Los Angeles on October 24 and including stops in Chicago, Boston, D.C., and New York. A full list of dates is below, with tickets on sale on Wednesday, August 9.
One Of Us was written by the musician as the soundtrack to a story that follows the relationship of two underground, lowlife residents in a dystopian world as they fight to escape shadowy forces exerting control over society. "It's a commentary on the fact that we as a world have allowed there to be a camera on the front and a camera on the back, and a mic here and a mic there and everywhere," Mystery Skulls explains. "Even when you see a picture of a CEO of an important company, they've got the camera on their laptop covered up with a little sticker. You realize this is an actual thing. It's dystopian, but the album is more a comment on our current reality."
Born Luis Dubuc in Venezuela, Mystery Skulls spent most of his childhood in Toronto living above a video store, teaching himself English by consuming horror and sci-fi epics. Relocating once again, to Dallas, led him to pick up his first pair of drumsticks where he channeled his collective admiration of idols, from Michael Jackson to Nirvana to The Locust, into his earliest experimentation with music-making. Following a later move to Los Angeles, the self-taught musician began to make a name for himself, and with the release of Forever, he blazed into the electronic and pop sphere, collaborating with pop icons Nile Rodgers and Brandy, as well as earning press love from the likes of Noisey, Earmilk, Nylon, VIBE, and COMPLEX, who called his music "Some of the most addictive, hypnotizing disco-pop jams you'll hear...
Fall 2017 Headline Tour Dates:
10/24 Los Angeles, CA The Troubadour
10/25 San Francisco, CA The Independent
10/27 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theatre
10/29 Seattle, WA Barboza
10/31 Denver, CO Lost Lake
11/02 Chicago, IL Subterranean
11/03 Pontiac, MI Pike Room @ The Crofoot
11/05 Toronto, ON The Rivoli
11/07 Cambridge, MA Middle East Upstairs
11/09 Washington, DC Songbyrd
11/10 Brooklyn, NY Knitting FactoryFollow Mystery Skulls:
Website: http://mysteryskulls.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mysteryskulls
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MysterySkulls
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mysteryskulls/
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