condition (record/cover): VG+ (one mark producing a soft click for 2') / EX- With gatefold sleeve and original innersleeve. The Residents' 1979 album abandoning conventional songs entirely for pure sound-based environmental storytelling. Eskimo purports to document Inuit life through environmental sounds and minimal instrumentation - wind, ice, voices, and percussion creating immersive sonic world. Using field recordings (possibly fabricated), percussion, and heavily processed vocals, The Residents create a genuinely immersive sonic environment. Whether it's ethnographically accurate is completely beside the point - this is imaginative music using advanced sound design techniques rarely applied to rock contexts at the time. Hugely influential on ambient music and experimental approaches to recording. One of The Residents' most fully realized and ambitious concepts, a genuine masterpiece of sound art.