{"id":14904,"date":"2018-07-21T05:30:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T09:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=14904"},"modified":"2018-07-20T16:56:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T20:56:37","slug":"album-review-eric-anders-and-mark-obitz-of-all-these-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/21\/album-review-eric-anders-and-mark-obitz-of-all-these-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Eric Anders and Mark O\u2019Bitz \u2013 Of All These Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14905\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/eric_anders2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/eric_anders2.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/eric_anders2-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/eric_anders2-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>If you&#8217;re one of the discerning fans who heard and appreciated the music Pete Yorn made in the first decade of this new century \u2013 <i>musicforthemorningafter<\/i>, <i>Day I Forgot <\/i>and especially <i>Nightcrawler<\/i> \u2013 then you owe it to yourself to seek out this new release. With breathy, close-miked vocals, swoonworthy vocal harmonies and keening, beautiful pedal steel guitar, <i>Of All These Things<\/i> is very much a piece with Yorn\u2019s early work.<\/p>\n<p>Anders is nominally a folk artist, but he has a pop sensibility that makes his thoughtful and melancholy songs more catchy and memorable than garden-variety folk music. His voice and acoustic guitar are at the sonic center of most all of the album\u2019s ten songs, but subtle splashes of other instrumentation add tone color throughout. Occasionally \u2013 as on \u201cEyes of Your Loves\u201d Anders threatens briefly to rock out, but in the end he doesn\u2019t. Nor does he need to. His vocals are out front, and the instrumentation provides sympathetic backing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI Used to Be Another\u201d displays a bit more country and western influence, and \u201cTime\u2019s Gone\u201d is the closest the album comes to straight folk. There\u2019s both a unity of musical approach and subtle variety among the songs; while the energy level rarely changes, <i>Of All These Things<\/i> holds the listener\u2019s interest from start to finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re one of the discerning fans who heard and appreciated the music Pete Yorn made in the first decade of this new century \u2013 musicforthemorningafter, Day I Forgot and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,49,62,65],"tags":[3321,3500],"class_list":["post-14904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-folk","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-eric-anders","tag-mark-obitz","cat-30-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\/14904","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=14904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14906,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14904\/revisions\/14906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}