{"id":11186,"date":"2016-07-29T05:45:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T09:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11186"},"modified":"2016-07-13T10:20:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T14:20:49","slug":"album-mini-review-steve-gunn-eyes-on-the-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/29\/album-mini-review-steve-gunn-eyes-on-the-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Steve Gunn &#8212; Eyes on the Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11187\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/steve_gunn.jpg\" alt=\"steve_gunn\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=as_ss_li_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B01DNA8JP6&#038;asins=B01DNA8JP6&#038;linkId=70b7cf35b250b5976417efe7a0fb6e8a&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nFile next to: <strong>Kurt Vile &amp; the Violators<\/strong>, <strong>Hiss Golden Messenger<\/strong>, <strong>Grateful Dead<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Though his stated influences variously suggest that his own music might be experimental, avant-garde or folk-leaning, <strong>Steve Gunn<\/strong> instead makes guitar hero music that puts the emphasis on songcraft. With a lean, snaky guitar approach that&#8217;s equal parts <strong>Tom Verlaine<\/strong>&#8216;s work in <strong>Television<\/strong>, <strong>Jerry Garcia<\/strong> and <strong>Thurston Moore<\/strong>, Gunn distills his influences into something completely his own. And that something is both fascinating and more accessible than the music that informed it. Gunn&#8217;s unassuming voice fits snugly into the songs, and his cracking, hyperactive (but never \u201cbusy\u201d) guitar spins out an almost nonstop barrage of leads. Those leads serve as a kind of countermelody to Gunn&#8217;s vocals. There&#8217;s a hypnotic, floating quality to songs like \u201cThe Drop\u201d that draws the listener in, and the carefully layered arrangements on <i>Eyes on the Lines<\/i> consistently reward active listening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Kurt Vile &amp; the Violators, Hiss Golden Messenger, Grateful Dead Though his stated influences variously suggest that his own music might be experimental, avant-garde or folk-leaning, Steve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11188,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11186\/revisions\/11188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}