{"id":12419,"date":"2017-03-10T05:45:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T10:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=12419"},"modified":"2017-03-09T13:49:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T18:49:22","slug":"album-review-mushroom-psychedelic-soul-on-wax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/10\/album-review-mushroom-psychedelic-soul-on-wax\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Mushroom &#8212; Psychedelic Soul on Wax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12420\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mushroom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" \/>File next to: Brian Auger&#8217;s Trinity, Can, David Byrne<\/p>\n<p>The four cuts on <i>Psychedelic Soul on Wax<\/i> are as different from another as can be, but then <strong>Mushroom<\/strong> has always confounded easy classification. \u201cFlesh Failures (Let the Sun Shine In)\u201d is a cover of the hit tune from the <i>Hair<\/i> soundtrack, served up here in swinging soul jazz style. \u201cSneak Attack\u201d is roaring, distorted guitar over a repetitive back beat; it&#8217;s the group&#8217;s latest display of their deep love of krautrock. \u201cBowed Gong\u201d is a tasty instrumental that explores the part of the Venn Diagram where psychedelia and soul intersect. The title track takes a speech by <strong>Eldridge Cleaver<\/strong> about <strong>Timothy Leary<\/strong> and applies a psych groove to it; the result is a similar \u2013 and superior \u2013 to Leary&#8217;s own \u201cYou Can Be Anyone This Time Around,\u201d which found <strong>Hendrix<\/strong>, <strong>Stills<\/strong> and friends playing while he pontificated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Brian Auger&#8217;s Trinity, Can, David Byrne The four cuts on Psychedelic Soul on Wax are as different from another as can be, but then Mushroom has always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,49,65,69,73],"tags":[2980,2684],"class_list":["post-12419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acid-jazz","category-new-release","category-review","category-soul","category-vinyl","tag-mushroom","tag-pat-thomas","cat-2-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","cat-69-id","cat-73-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12419","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=12419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12421,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12419\/revisions\/12421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}