Synth Single Review: “Speed Bump” by Eddie Wrevlonne

by Karl Magi

Eddie Wrevlonne’s “Speed Bump” looks back on a relationship both painful and worthy of remembrance. The song begins as chimes ring with wistful light before Eddie Wrevlonne’s voice moves like espresso tinged with dark chocolate while the melody brims with hurt. Drums rebound as the shadowy vocals grab me with their fractured emotions.

Unctuous arpeggios radiate muted light as Eddie Wrevlonne expresses damaged affection while the rhythm rebounds. Sweetness mingles with the pain in the lyrics, touching and full of reflection, while computerized tones drift past the rich flow of Eddie Wrevlonne’s low voice.

The vocals move with a bereft sensation while steadily pulsing notes hesitantly touch the music. The chiming melody is full of aching remorse, capturing the lyrics with expressive depth. Wistful notes wander and create painful reminiscence while the lower tones float with feathery fragility before silence falls.

“Remember all those times I would take you for a drive, your feet on the dashboard in those little socks you wore?” As the narrator asks this question, he recalls a time when they were driving around, bored and he hit a speed bump in the road. The song’s subject “laughed and called me dumb and you called me your speed bump.”

Our storyteller concludes that he should not be surprised because “when I looked into your eyes, I saw violent design.” He felt that the universe had shown him a sign, but “when I felt your hand in mine, we were innocent divine.” He asks the song’s subject to remember the fights they had, staying up half the night while he would “shiver and I’d shake on that bed you would not make.”

When they were out at their usual bar, the song’s subject told the narrator that he always goes too far and “you cried and called me dumb and called me your speed bump.”