There’s a brooding, crooked, shimmer in the raspy, deep breath of Pete Sahaidachny that becomes a river in an unforgettable badlands, an anthem beaming in the hilt of Orion. “Skeletons” is a longing for a lover’s hand, the liquid eyes staring back at you feeding your anima.
“Skeletons” appears on Pete Sahaidachny’s Bandcamp, there’s a link below to listen-
The docile heart bending to the lover, “you could have stayed some other day/ you could have stayed.” “I’ve been running away from myself/ I’ve been running away from you,” the hunger grows like an electrical storm pounding the earth with its gravity.
Pete Sahaidachny’s “Skeletons” searches for bruises and darkness, there wading in a pool of fire we see the abandonment in “Skeletons” like the honest plucking of heartstrings, a visceral voice moving mountains. Pete Sahaidachny may remind us of Tom Waits.
The granular sound and singer/ songwriter feel give the music a powerful presence, the lyrics “haunt” us as Pete Sahaidachny moves through sadness and regress like a ghost telling stories with his moving pictures of music- We are aware that “Skeletons” is an invitation perhaps to wander amongst the secrets of ourselves and move through the other worlds we have hidden from behind our luminous eyes.
The guitars are crisp and the drums hammer on like jackals there is a sinuous texture to the song. This music is akin to the band The Replacements strangely casting its own unique shadow, with whereabouts coming from a different era. “I wanted you to notice me/ I wanted you to see everything/ everything,” Pete Sahaidachny is bearing it all in the boneyard of peril and light to a lost lover- It’s all the world sees in this life when caught by the tail end of revealing oneself- We are left wondering if the leaving was because of his skeletons which is the soul of the song. We wonder what dark night could have swallowed the relationship.
Written by Hari Palacio
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