{"id":11731,"date":"2016-11-10T05:45:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T10:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11731"},"modified":"2016-11-06T10:39:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T15:39:57","slug":"album-mini-review-allyson-seconds-little-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/10\/album-mini-review-allyson-seconds-little-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Allyson Seconds &#8212; Little World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11732\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/allyson_seconds_lw.jpg\" alt=\"allyson_seconds_lw\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/allyson_seconds_lw.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/allyson_seconds_lw-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=B01LRZ7L26&amp;asins=B01LRZ7L26&amp;linkId=e10e64e1b17bf956ad1cd7494635da52&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nFile next to: <strong>Anton Barbeau<\/strong>, <strong>Corner Laughers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pop music has long featured engaging artists who don&#8217;t write their own material. Going back to perhaps the greatest of them all, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/02\/anton-barbeaus-traveling-magic-act-part-1\/\"><strong>Frank Sinatra<\/strong><\/a> never wrote a song in his life. <strong>Linda Ronstadt<\/strong>&#8216;s long and successful career was built in large part upon her canny choice of material. And so California pop vocalist Allyson Seconds is in very good company: she chooses to work with American expat <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/02\/anton-barbeaus-traveling-magic-act-part-1\/\"><strong>Anton Barbeau<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 producer, musician and songwriter of all 11 tracks on Seconds&#8217;, um, second album. Barbeau has collected a clutch of ear-candy melodies, and \u2013 with the help of associates including The <strong>Bevis Frond<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Nick Saloman<\/strong>, former <strong>XTC<\/strong> bassist <strong>Colin Moulding<\/strong>, <strong>Kimberley Rew<\/strong>, and the <strong>Corner Laughers<\/strong>&#8216; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/18\/the-corner-laughers-let-the-music-do-the-selling\/\"><strong>Karla Kane<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 succeeds in helping a decidedly pop-leaning artist craft an album with serious, edgy alternarock credibility. That Seconds possesses a lovely voice helps things to no end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Anton Barbeau, Corner Laughers Pop music has long featured engaging artists who don&#8217;t write their own material. Going back to perhaps the greatest of them all, Frank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,65],"tags":[2881,211],"class_list":["post-11731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-review","tag-alysson-seconds","tag-anton-barbeau","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731","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=11731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11740,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731\/revisions\/11740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}