Askeleton (Happy) Album Askeleton’s (Happy) Album is the third and last in the trilogy of albums named after emotions.

Askeleton (Happy) Album Askeleton’s (Happy) Album is the third and last in the trilogy of albums named after emotions. The predecessor to Sad Album (2002) and Angry Album –or- Psychic Songs (2004), (Happy) Album is the most ambitious album to date. After some success, positive reviews and winning Minneapolis weekly’s Cities Pages “Song Writer Of The Year” for 2004s Angry Album, bandleader and multi- instrumentalist Knol Tate went straight into his own recording studio to work on the follow up. Ever changing sounds and aesthetic Tate moved away from the sample and lo-fi based digi-pop sounds of Sad Album and the digital rock meets minimalism of Angry Album. The (Happy) Album utilizes the Twin Cities community of musicians and the Askeleton live band. No longer a one-man band. Askeleton leaps out of the world of the computer composers. Keeping with the some of the aesthetics fans of Askeleton have come to know, the music and lyrics are simple yet to the point. With songs about simple subjects like cities, cars, rock n’ roll and the idea of individuals and groups becoming simply “some people” Tate draws complex and sometimes abstract pictures with simple ideas and words. (Happy) Album is true to its name. The songs are brighter and more positive than past efforts and yet have the parenthesis around the songs (like the title) to clarify some of the meaning behind the underlined sarcasm of the happiness of the record. In a sense (Happy) Album is the perfect (happy) ending to the trilogy.