We have been going on a bit and repeatedly about the phenomenal new Frightened Rabbit album Pedestrian Verse. We haven’t heard a wrong note yet.  Check out songwriter Scott Hutchison, with strong harmonic accompaniment, performing one of the album’s strong songs, Backyard Skulls, unplugged for a Best Fit Session.  About the song, Hutchison recently said “this song was inspired by a novel by the Scottish writer Chris Brookmyre.  In his 2011 book Where The Bodies Are Buried, the detectives use aerial images to hunt for undiscovered bodies. I took this idea and threaded it into a song about unpleasant secrets in a more general sense. Infidelity, mistakes, wrong-doings. These things are never really gone, no matter how far down you bury them.” Make no mistakes about it, this performance has no wrong-doings.  Superb stuff.  The song’s well-wrought lyrics follow the video.

Backyard Skulls:

“All our secrets are smothered by dirt
Underneath paving stones
Lying, waiting to be told
Some remain hidden, some get found
Like a long lost soul
Like a skull beneath the ground
Backyard skulls
Deep beneath the ground
Those backyard skulls
Are not deep enough to never be found
Here lies the first time that I was wrong
And yet there’s still no sign
No exes mark the spot
Of the ancient encounters
With foreign skin, all but perished by now
But you can’t erase the grin from those
Backyard skulls
Deep beneath the ground
Those backyard skulls
Are not deep enough to never be found
Through patio doors
Lies century upon century
Of skulls untold
Hushed as suburban adultery
Below our homes
Underneath the lawns we keep
White silent skulls
Are smiling at the hypocrisy
Backyard skulls
Deep beneath the ground
Those backyard skulls
Are not deep enough to never be found”