{"id":12631,"date":"2017-05-01T05:30:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T09:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=12631"},"modified":"2017-05-01T07:46:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T11:46:48","slug":"album-mini-review-chicano-batman-freedom-is-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/01\/album-mini-review-chicano-batman-freedom-is-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Chicano Batman &#8212; Freedom is Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12632\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/chicano_freedom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/chicano_freedom.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/chicano_freedom-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>File next to: <strong>War<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/tag\/mayer-hawthorne\/\"><strong>Mayer Hawthorne<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/01\/in-search-of-sly-stone-part-one\/\"><strong>Sly &amp; the Family Stone<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The spirit of late-sixties psychedelic soul is alive in <strong>Chicano Batman<\/strong>. On this collection of twelve socially aware originals, the Los Angeles quartet \u2013 augmented with an alluring female vocal chorus \u2013 makes some of the best music of its career. Musically, <i>Freedom is Free<\/i> is an aural travelogue of the styles that inform the group&#8217;s unique approach: soul, Brazilian tropicalia and gritty L.A. funk are just a few of the styles put to use behind the songs. The silky-smooth vocals of Bardo Martinez are set against inventive arrangements like that found on the sexy groove of \u201cJelaousy.\u201d Even when Martinez occasionally sings in Spanish \u2013 as on the kinetic, wah-wah guitar-filled \u201cFlecha al Sol\u201d \u2013 the emotional content comes through loud and clear. The title track and single \u201cFriendship (Is a Small Boat in a Storm)\u201d are teasers for an album full of gems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/19\/chicano-batman-its-playtime\/\">You may also enjoy my Chicano Batman interview.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: War, Mayer Hawthorne, Sly &amp; the Family Stone The spirit of late-sixties psychedelic soul is alive in Chicano Batman. On this collection of twelve socially aware originals, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,57,65,69],"tags":[3028],"class_list":["post-12631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-psych","category-review","category-soul","tag-chicano-batman","cat-49-id","cat-57-id","cat-65-id","cat-69-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12631","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=12631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12633,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12631\/revisions\/12633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}