{"id":11350,"date":"2016-08-22T05:45:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T09:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11350"},"modified":"2016-08-22T08:25:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T12:25:57","slug":"album-mini-review-velvet-crush-pre-teen-symphonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/22\/album-mini-review-velvet-crush-pre-teen-symphonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Velvet Crush &#8212; Pre-teen Symphonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11351\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/velvet_crush_pts.jpg\" alt=\"velvet_crush_pts\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/velvet_crush_pts.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/velvet_crush_pts-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B01G8RVVVK&amp;asins=B01G8RVVVK&amp;linkId=7374ded25086a8c94475632553cd3540&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>File next to: <strong>The Smithereens<\/strong>, <strong>Matthew Sweet<\/strong>, <strong>Teenage Fanclub<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If they didn&#8217;t scale the heights of commercial success that some of their contemporaries reached, it was no fault of <strong>Velvet Crush<\/strong>. All of the ingredients for success were there: muscular playing and arrangements, razor-sharp hooks, great lead and harmony vocals, and solid songwriting. They persevered through seven albums \u2013 they&#8217;re technically still together, though they&#8217;ve been inactive for more than a decade \u2013 but their second release, <i>Teenage Symphonies to God<\/i>, is their masterpiece. A near-perfect synthesis of power pop and the best of country-rock (<strong>Byrds<\/strong>, <strong>Flying Burrito Brothers<\/strong>), it proved hard to follow. But now (and with the band&#8217;s cooperation) Omnivore has unearthed demos for that album (plus a live show from the same era featuring powerpop hero <strong>Tommy Keene<\/strong>) that show a less-polished side of the band. Essential for fans, it&#8217;s highly recommended to anyone who enjoys <i>Teenage Symphonies to God<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: The Smithereens, Matthew Sweet, Teenage Fanclub If they didn&#8217;t scale the heights of commercial success that some of their contemporaries reached, it was no fault of Velvet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65],"tags":[1622,2806],"class_list":["post-11350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-omnivore-recordings","tag-velvet-crush","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\/11350","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=11350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11353,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350\/revisions\/11353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}