{"id":13007,"date":"2017-07-24T05:45:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T09:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=13007"},"modified":"2017-07-23T14:19:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T18:19:23","slug":"album-review-cowbell-haunted-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/24\/album-review-cowbell-haunted-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Cowbell &#8212; Haunted Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13008\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cowbell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cowbell.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cowbell-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cowbell-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>File next to: Flat Duo-jets, The Cramps, Southside Johnny &amp; the Asbury Jukes<\/p>\n<p>Discerning listeners may turn a skeptical ear toward news of yet another guitar-and-drum duo. There&#8217;s a strong argument that the format is completely played out. But British duo Cowbell has expanded its instrumental arsenal for its American debut release, and far from being a one-dimensional collection of tunes with no proper bottom end, <i>Haunted Heart<\/i> is a winning collection that trades in a variety of style. There&#8217;s dark psychobilly (the title track), spooky jump blues-meets-60s garage (\u201cNone of Your Business\u201d), and raw, stripped-down punk (\u201cDownlow\u201d). And those are just the first three tracks. Elsewhere, Jack Sandham and Wednesday Lyle serve up straight blues, sweet romantic ballads, Stonesy rock, girl-group flavored pop, and even a late-night soulful yakety-sax weeper. <i>Haunted Heart<\/i> suggests that Cowbell could make a solid album in any one of these myriad styles, but that variety is their fundamental goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Flat Duo-jets, The Cramps, Southside Johnny &amp; the Asbury Jukes Discerning listeners may turn a skeptical ear toward news of yet another guitar-and-drum duo. There&#8217;s a strong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,33,49,62,65],"tags":[3104],"class_list":["post-13007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americana","category-garage","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-cowbell","cat-6-id","cat-33-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\/13007","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=13007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13009,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13007\/revisions\/13009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}