Extra Credit
Extra Credit, from Songs of Yoni, is an album from a Florida-based singer/songwriter that allows listeners into the intimate world of the artist and notes exactly what he is thinking. Past songs by Yoni were heard on MTV's "Road Rules," and "Real World," series as well as on the Oxygen Networks' "Bad Girls Club." His consuming timbre will immediately hook listeners in and make them want to listen keenly to each lyric this musician utters.
The first song begins with rhythmic percussion play then guitar is melded in later on. Yoni seems to be reminiscing about a precise time in his life and listeners might remember the same chapter in their lives as he croons lines such as, "I remember 21, fresh out of school, thinkin' I was done/I'm still waiting for someone to tell where I go to get my millions. Somewhere down the line I realized no one cares about my hungry eyes. Hungry for the world to identify who I am/Tomorrow might not be so fun." This song might remind some of a time when their fate was yet to be revealed and the possibilities were endless.
The second song has wicked fast guitar work acutely followed by powerful drum play. Yoni again plays with the advance of time as he invites listeners to take a mental musical foray with him back in time. "Close your eyes and come for a ride. As I take you back in time to an age in every boys life when you feel like a man and it all seems right/Take my advice when you want to escape go back in your mind/Look outside what do you see? Me and my friends being 13/A trip to the mall and maybe a fight."
On the third song specific guitar chords open up the intro. On this track, he seems to be vocalizing internal questions about himself and if he has overstepped the boundaries of society with his language. "Sometimes it occurs to me/Do you know yourself/Then you have reality/Should I turn the sensor off. What if I said too much/And then it occurs to me/Tossin' round and round in bed." Yoni seems to be disturbed at the thought he might have offended people, and he is trying to assess in song what his next step should be.
Songs of Yoni's "Extra Credit" is a peek inside the mind of this singer/songwriter who poses voluminous queries to listeners about the past, present and the future. Many of the tracks on the record will remind listeners of events that have taken place in their own existences and make them ponder the choices they have made in contrast to Yoni's.