Our Bones is the long running project of Hudson Valley musician and producer Benjamin Durland. cash considerations, written and recorded largely solo at The Studio at Old Ridge, gathers a decade of songs into a tight, emotionally heavy rock record. no home opens the album quietly, with soft guitar picking and a close vocal before distant pads and light percussion ease in.
The storytelling is central, and Durland sings like he is walking through the lyrics line by line. The song eventually breaks into a heavier, rock driven section around the two minute mark, guitars turning rougher and drums hitting harder, but that earlier fragility still hangs over it. It feels like the record planting a flag in both worlds, confessional indie and more aggressive emo rock.
what is wrong. takes another path. Rhodes chords set a softer frame, and the first words, “what is wrong with my heart,” land almost like a half finished thought. A plucked guitar joins later and keeps the track moving.
It stays modest in scale, which lets the anxiety in the title sit there quietly instead of being shouted. Across the rest of the record, Durland shifts gear without losing that core voice.
“don’t get it” leans into a pitched up vocal atmosphere and a darker, phrygian flavored progression that nods to post hardcore and emo influences. all the time flips the mood with a funkier, brighter tone, using guitars, acoustic percussion, and vocal lines that sound closer to indie pop. dead bird goes in the opposite direction, more gritty and metal leaning, while winning stays on the lighter, happier side.
‘practice for today’ sits in an indie rock pocket, softer edges but with a clear drum and electric guitar groove, and sick, sad & insane stretches into something closer to ambient and post rock, with guitars, drums, piano, and vocal feeling more spacious. What ties cash considerations together is less the style shift from track to track and more the sense that every song is wrestling with something specific. Addiction, betrayal, mental health, and self acceptance show up not as slogans but as lines that sound “ëxperienced”, from the Sisyphus reference in no home to the wage grind fatigue in practice for today. Recorded mostly by one person with help from a small circle of friends, it has the slightly obsessive focus that often comes with long term home studio work.
For sync, cash considerations offers several clear lanes.
no home, with its gentle acoustic opening and later rock drop, fits character driven TV or film scenes that need a quiet start and a cathartic hit once guitars arrive.
‘what is wrong’. and ‘practice for today’ work under reflective dialogue in drama, while sick, sad & insane, with its post rock and ambient leaning blend of guitars, drums, piano, and vocal, fits montage or end credit moments that need a slowly intensifying emotional bed.
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