{"id":12509,"date":"2017-04-05T05:45:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T09:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=12509"},"modified":"2017-03-22T12:34:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T16:34:35","slug":"album-mini-review-willodean-awesome-life-decisions-volume-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/05\/album-mini-review-willodean-awesome-life-decisions-volume-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Willodean &#8212; Awesome Life Decisions Volume One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12536\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/willodean.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/willodean.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/willodean-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>File next to: <strong>David Bowie, Todd Rundgren, Ben Folds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Way back in 2005, Los Angeles-based <strong>Randy &amp; the Bloody Lovelies<\/strong> released their second album, <i>Lift<\/i>. The album straddled Americana and power pop, with songwriting that recalled another <strong>Randy<\/strong> (<strong>Newman<\/strong>) with its inventive wordplay and wicket yet subtle humor. Predictably in a market dominated by <strong>Coldplay, 50 Cent, Hilary Duff<\/strong> and <strong>Eminem<\/strong>, the album sank without a trace. Fast forward more than a decade; <strong>Randy Wooten<\/strong> and <strong>Eric Holden<\/strong> have resurfaced as two-thirds of Willodean. But for this group, they cede front man duties to vocalist <strong>Abbie Huxley<\/strong>. \u201cDon&#8217;t Give Up\u201d explicitly recalls <i>Hunky Dory<\/i>-era Bowie, and the judicious use of synthesizer on \u201cDevil &amp; Me\u201d conjures thoughts of <i>Band on the Run<\/i>. <i>Awesome Life Decisions: Side One<\/i> is a six-song EP \u2013 the first of four such planned releases \u2013 that applies modern rock sheen to Holden&#8217;s melodic songwriting, with a winning undercurrent of Americana authenticity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: David Bowie, Todd Rundgren, Ben Folds Way back in 2005, Los Angeles-based Randy &amp; the Bloody Lovelies released their second album, Lift. The album straddled Americana and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,49,62,65],"tags":[1782,3019],"class_list":["post-12509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americana","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-randy-and-the-bloody-lovelies","tag-willodean","cat-6-id","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\/12509","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=12509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12537,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12509\/revisions\/12537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}