Video: Tiny Masters of Today - Skeletons

TMOT on Ludlow St - CMJ 2007 ( by Bao Nguyen ) "They are impressive only in comparison to a) other kids their age who have not somehow been encouraged to become a full-time touring band by hipster stage parents, and b) their least-inspired adult contemporaries. At their best, the Tiny Masters provide self-conscious kiddy variations on vaguely arty strains of punk and alt-rock, but there is very little practical use for this music besides causing adults to go, "awww, cute!" The lyrics are predictably banal and laughable, the vocals are uniformly flat [...]

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I can't front--at 15 I barely did shit. That's not the case with the Tiny Masters of Today, a Mute band fronted by siblings Ivan (15) and Ida (12) who have a sophomore record, titled Skeletons , coming out on June 16, that they recorded on their own. The set's title track just got a cute video that finds Ida and Ivan trying to get some skeletons out of Ida's closet (pretty literal stuff, obviously). I'm not sure if it was their decision to sound like a hazy Nuggets -era [...]

Tiny Masters of Today's new video for "Skeletons," is the title track from their new album out June 16th. At just 15 and 12 years old, Tiny Masters of Today's Ivan and Ada are more interesting than you and your band. Skeletons http://www.myspace.com/tinymas ters http://www.mute.com/