Five-string electric cello (its fifth string acts as bass), guitar, drums, and vocals make up Skidmore Fountain. In Break, expect a complex, textural and certainly modern sound. “Call this retro except that these guys do enough fresh things with the songwriting that it nails you,” Music Morsels wrote of their prior release. Or, as Hybrid Magazine called it, “Post-post punk rock with wildly avant pieces.”

Skidmore Fountain has rapidly evolved since its birth seven years ago in Tucson, AZ, where the band’s classical training culminated. Next stop was Portland, OR, where they became part of the West Coast Indie Rock movement. But it was in Brooklyn that the original three multi-instrumentalists of Skidmore Fountain, Randy Bergida, Steven Cohen and Topu Lyo, joined with veteran drummer Dylan Wissing (Johnny Socko, Julia Jones). Together, the solid quartet quickly gelled into an advanced, exciting group, channeling influences like Gang of Four, David Bowie and the Specials through Skidmore Fountain’s unique Indie Rock orchestration.