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Zombie Skeleton

by Useless Against

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About a year ago my son had just turned 4, and he’d sit at our piano in the house and plunk around. There was this one recurring, spooky sounding riff that I noticed he’d play often. When I asked him what it was, he said “It’s the Zombie Skeleton song”, very matter-of-factly. He was increasingly developing a fascination with all things spooky and will always perk up at any music that uses odd interval tritones or any minor key intrigue. He continued to play that riff every time he’d sit at the piano and always remind me when I’d walk by, “This is the Zombie Skeleton song”.
One day I decided to set up a mic record it and I told him we’d make a whole song out of it and then cut it to a record on my lathe that we could listen to on our record player. So we tracked him playing his riff on a harpsichord sound on the clavinova and then I wrote a guitar riff to it, then tracked all of the other instruments, written around his playing. I had him record some synth for the second “half” of the song. It wasn’t even a stretch to make it be a Useless Against song. I honestly think it’s the best Useless Against song.
So what better time than Halloween to put up this spooky song we made together, that he wrote the opening riff to and named! The first song that my son and I have co-written together. What a dream come true!
I told him today when I dropped him off at school that we needed artwork for the cover. He proudly delivered this cover art to me immediately upon getting in the car when I picked him up. It’s perfect. Who needs a refrigerator to hang your kid's art on? He can have my band.
So here’s a song for Halloween (or everyday if you’re like my son), that I wrote with my son, River. It’s the “Zombie Skeleton” song.

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released October 25, 2019

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