{"id":15160,"date":"2013-02-11T17:42:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T01:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=15160"},"modified":"2013-02-11T17:47:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T01:47:28","slug":"watch-frightened-rabbit-perform-backyard-skulls-unplugged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-02\/watch-frightened-rabbit-perform-backyard-skulls-unplugged\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Frightened Rabbit Perform &#8220;Backyard Skulls&#8221; Unplugged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have been going on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-02\/check-out-frightened-rabbit-performing-late-march-death-march-unplugged\/\"> a bit <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-02\/watch-frightened-rabbit-live-on-kexp\/\">repeatedly<\/a> about the phenomenal new <strong>Frightened Rabbit<\/strong> album <strong>Pedestrian Verse<\/strong>. We haven&#8217;t heard a wrong note yet.\u00a0 Check out songwriter<strong> Scott Hutchison<\/strong>, with strong harmonic accompaniment, performing one of the album&#8217;s strong songs, <em><strong>Backyard Skulls<\/strong><\/em>, unplugged for a <strong>Best Fit Session<\/strong>.\u00a0 About the song, Hutchison recently said &#8220;this song was inspired by a novel by the Scottish writer <strong>Chris Brookmyre<\/strong>.\u00a0 In his 2011 book <strong>Where The Bodies Are Buried<\/strong>, 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.&#8221; Make no mistakes about it, this performance has no wrong-doings.\u00a0 Superb stuff.\u00a0 The song&#8217;s well-wrought lyrics follow the video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DBqbYOJI8bU\" height=\"400\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Backyard Skulls<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All our secrets are smothered by dirt<br \/>\nUnderneath paving stones<br \/>\nLying, waiting to be told<br \/>\nSome remain hidden, some get found<br \/>\nLike a long lost soul<br \/>\nLike a skull beneath the ground<br \/>\nBackyard skulls<br \/>\nDeep beneath the ground<br \/>\nThose backyard skulls<br \/>\nAre not deep enough to never be found<br \/>\nHere lies the first time that I was wrong<br \/>\nAnd yet there\u2019s still no sign<br \/>\nNo exes mark the spot<br \/>\nOf the ancient encounters<br \/>\nWith foreign skin, all but perished by now<br \/>\nBut you can\u2019t erase the grin from those<br \/>\nBackyard skulls<br \/>\nDeep beneath the ground<br \/>\nThose backyard skulls<br \/>\nAre not deep enough to never be found<br \/>\nThrough patio doors<br \/>\nLies century upon century<br \/>\nOf skulls untold<br \/>\nHushed as suburban adultery<br \/>\nBelow our homes<br \/>\nUnderneath the lawns we keep<br \/>\nWhite silent skulls<br \/>\nAre smiling at the hypocrisy<br \/>\nBackyard skulls<br \/>\nDeep beneath the ground<br \/>\nThose backyard skulls<br \/>\nAre not deep enough to never be found&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been going on a bit and repeatedly about the phenomenal new Frightened Rabbit album Pedestrian Verse. We haven&#8217;t heard a wrong note yet.\u00a0 Check out songwriter Scott Hutchison, with strong harmonic accompaniment, performing one of the album&#8217;s strong songs, Backyard Skulls, unplugged for a Best Fit Session.\u00a0 About the song, Hutchison recently said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}