Fantastic Spikes Through Balloon is the debut studio album by the American rock band Skeleton Key, released in 1997 on Capitol Records.

In 1998, a two-disc edition of the album was released in the United States, with the second disc containing alternative versions and remixes by DJ Spooky, Mark Linkous, JG Thirlwell and Dan the Automator.

[3] The New York Times wrote: "With its raucous precision, Skeleton Key touches on punk and funk, constructing lean, clattery vamps.

It also harks back to Captain Beefheart's down-home surrealism and tips its hat to the circus-band waltzes of Kurt Weill via Tom Waits.

"[6] The Dayton Daily News deemed the album "a quirky hodgepodge of megaphone vocals, tin-can percussion, jagged rhythms and bizarro sound effects.