New Music: SAOL – Skeletons

Skeletons sees Irish singer-songwriter SAOL follow up their Fool’s Gold debut with the equally emotive and cathartic Skeletons.

Where their debut had a lighter tone to the vocals and arrangement, here that is pushed into a terrain that has stronger post-punk tones and textures to it, with grunge breaking through as the intensity of the lyrics demand.

That works well with the lyrics, as the initial romance of a relationship becomes something less rewarding, less healthy, leaving the artist needing to find a route to recovery – and doing that partly through music, casting self-doubt and self-recrimination aside.

Says SAOL, “Skeletons explores dealing with feelings of depletion and fear following the end of a relationship. Specifically, the symptoms of social anxiety that often come with this. Essentially, I had a relationship with someone I really loved, and it got pretty fucked up.”

“We all go back to a place in our minds from time to time and reel with anxiety when we think about things that happened there, right? Skeletons invites the listener into my little reeling world. I hope it makes your head spin as much as it does mine. It’s an awful pang, but there’s an element of catharsis that comes with it!”

You can hear Skeletons and Fool’s Gold on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify and SoundCloud. Keep up with all things SAOL by following them on Instagram.