suburban daredevil

Skeleton’s new album is everything. You can really hear the growth with every project he drops—it feels so natural. He’s finally locked in his sound. If you go back to his first album, Fuck National Boyfriend Day, he was still figuring it out—messing around with beats, pitching them up or down, speeding them up. It was all over the place, but in a way that still hits. There’s something about that messy energy that makes it special.

Then he dropped Lovefool, which was like a more polished version of Fuck National Boyfriend Day. He was trying out new flows, stacking his vocals in these cool ways. It’s not his best work—it feels like his “awkward phase” musically—but you’ve gotta appreciate it for being that bridge between the raw chaos of the first album and where he’s at now.

Now we’ve got Suburban Daredevil, and it’s perfect. Everything about it—from the production to the vocals—feels fresh. There’s still a couple samples, but most of the instrumentals are original this time, and the production? On another level. The way he layers his vocals now is unreal. He even ditched the AI voice that some fans were iffy about. It’s kind of sad, ‘cause that voice was part of what made his sound feel so genuine, but honestly, now that his music’s more mainstream, you can really hear his voice clearly, and it’s beautiful.

One of my favorite tracks is El Sonata. It just embodies everything Skeleton is about—raw emotion, killer vocal performance, and the kind of messy screaming that somehow makes it all better. And My Twenty First Reason </3? The Slow Pulp sample in that had me tearing up. It gave me flashbacks to Nineteen Forever, a total Skeleton classic.

And then there’s I Keep Calling. This is his take on RnB, which you know he’s been itching to do. Plus, Jaydes is featured on it, making it one of the standouts for sure. All in all, this album is great—it's got the polish, but it still holds onto that raw, unfiltered energy from his earlier stuff.

WIFISKELETON - SUBURBAN DAREDEVIL

RATING - 8.7/10

FAVORITE TRACK - All

GENRE - Alt Rock