Grand Archives - Keep in Mind Frankenstein

Grand Archives' second full-length album, like much of its predecessor, was crafted at Paradise Sound in Index, Washington with help from producer Ben Kersten (who also recorded The Grand Archives, the band's 2008 debut). It's a little darker than the first record and opens with the bittersweet elegy "Topsy's Revenge," inspired by the infamous 1903 newsreel footage of Thomas Edison electrocuting a rogue Coney Island elephant. Songs like "Dig That Crazy Grave," a buoyant ditty redolent of Southern California and summer afternoons, and the insistent, soaring "Silver Among the God" find their place here as well. It's an album made up of disparate elements artfully fit together and brought to life with affecting results: Keep In Mind Frankenstein.