Reviews

Skappository For Your Health! CD

If anyone at any time in the last 30 years would have bet me that I’d find a ska band in 2025 that I like, I would have taken that bet and ended up broke. SKAPPOSITORY, with charm and humor, applies the classic sounds of the SPECIALS, BAD MANNERS, and MADNESS, as well as a more modern feel from the likes of MUSTARD PLUG and the SLACKERS. I know that typically in a review of ska that folks would throw around OPERATION IVY for points, but this ain’t that. I think SKAPPOSITORY has a more refined sound and a tuneful maturity that OPERATION IVY didn’t have. If I haven’t sold you yet on SKAPPOSITORY, how about the fact one of the folks in this band plays a keytar? Yeah, I said it. Go click into your favorite online search engine and look at pictures of them from basements to clubs and you’ll see a fella with a keytar strapped onto his body. I think it’s pretty bold to be a ska band these days, but SKAPPOSITORY pulls it off well.