{"id":14945,"date":"2018-07-28T05:45:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T09:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=14945"},"modified":"2018-07-27T12:05:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T16:05:47","slug":"album-review-jared-weiss-isolated-thunderstorms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/28\/album-review-jared-weiss-isolated-thunderstorms\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Jared Weiss \u2013 Isolated Thunderstorms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14946\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/jared_weiss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/jared_weiss.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/jared_weiss-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/jared_weiss-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>The press kit tells us that <i>Isolated Thunderstorms<\/i> began its life as a folk record, and evolved into a rock one. I\u2019ve no particular reason to doubt that sequence of events, but what I can tell you is that the song construction owes a lot more to rock and pop than to folk. Though exceptions are many, folk places emphasis on the words, using familiar (often really familiar) chord sequences to deliver those words. At its best, pop makes effective use of melody.<\/p>\n<p>And really, that\u2019s what Weiss does here. Sure, on cuts like \u201cAnnalu (From Monterrey)\u201d he employs acoustic textures. And the story-song is interesting. But there are timeless pop values within Weiss\u2019 musical approach. At times his style reminds me of Jules Shear, they original host of what became <i>MTV Unplugged<\/i> and a superb songwriter.<\/p>\n<p>And an intelligent pop persona reveals itself on \u201cGet out of My Head,\u201d in which Weiss conjures thoughts of Ben Folds, Owsley and even Jellyfish. Three songs in, he\u2019s effectively trafficked in three very different musical styles. The thing is, they all seem to fit him naturally; Weiss doesn\u2019t come off a dilettante; he explores different genres (or subgenres) in a way that seem natural, unforced and genuine.<\/p>\n<p>That pleasing variety continues throughout <i>Isolated Thunderstorms<\/i>\u2019 eleven songs; Weiss\u2019 voice is the primary unifying element, and his sharply-crafted lyrics are the glue that holds the album together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The press kit tells us that Isolated Thunderstorms began its life as a folk record, and evolved into a rock one. I\u2019ve no particular reason to doubt that sequence of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,62,65],"tags":[3512],"class_list":["post-14945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-rawk","category-review","tag-jared-weiss","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14945","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=14945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14947,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14945\/revisions\/14947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}