Broadjam Artist: Soul Bind
Song: Skeletons
Reviewer: Kate Carpenter
Positive Comments: Here’s a rock song about the skeletons the writer has in his closet that haunt him. The lyrics are spare and simple, communicating a message of despair. The vocalist does a good job of expressing the hopelessness. Favorite lyric “while my blood runs cold.” Some really nice guitar work in there, a combination of crazy-mad electric to peaceful/pretty acoustic. I actually liked the gentle acoustic part better than the raging part, though both are well-played. This is an interesting song.
Constructive Comments: I’ll be real honest with you. I listened through the first time without looking at the lyrics. I kept asking myself, what is he singing about? I kept hearing Scaling Tents. I’m scratching my head and asking myself what in the world? Then I looked at the lyrics and saw skeletons and got what you were singing about. The word skeleton has the accent on the FIRST syllable. The way you are singing it, it seems to me you are putting the accent on the second syllable. That’s why it threw me off. You’re making it a long E instead of a “schwa” which is probably what you will find in the dictionary for the pronunciation of the word skeleton.