Skiantos

condition (record/cover): NM / EX
Black vinyl. Gatefold sleeve. With original innersleeve. 
Skiantos had a void in their minds, and that was all they needed to revolutionize Italian music. They imported demented rock to Italy, drawing on an all-American, nonsensical movement (from Frank Zappa to Devo), fueled by the explosion of English punk. Before Skiantos, the only demented aspects of Italian songwriting had been the perverse (and perverted) obscenities of Squallor, who, while hilarious (sometimes even from a purely compositional standpoint), should be considered no more than a delightful curiosity. Skiantos, on the other hand, were truly a groundbreaking group capable of sweeping away in one fell swoop the "courtly" ambitions of certain glorious Italian progressive music (a genre that Skiantos also appreciated given that their third album "Kinotto" was produced by a legend of Italian prog like Paolo Tofani), the dull tradition of Sanremo bel canto and the haughty tedium of a singer-songwriter scene that often became didactic, moralistic or militant.