{"id":15075,"date":"2018-08-18T05:30:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T09:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=15075"},"modified":"2018-08-19T08:35:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T12:35:19","slug":"album-review-american-amnesia-yet-here-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/18\/album-review-american-amnesia-yet-here-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: American Amnesia &#8212; &#8230;Yet Here We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15073\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/american_amnesia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/american_amnesia.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/american_amnesia-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/american_amnesia-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>The band name and the album title might suggest to some that this is an album of sociopolitical commentary. Not so much: this Connecticut trio makes hard-charging rock. The songs often have more than one good idea in \u2018em. To wit: the opening track, \u201cTime,\u201d sounds like two completely different songs grated together. One\u2019s fairly conventional and quite good; the other is a frenetic spray of lyrics that has more in common with punk or, say, Violent Femmes. But together they work.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s even a subtly bluesy undercurrent to some of the tracks. Fans of sharp and heavy rock with plenty of variety should check this one out. There\u2019s a sense of fun and reckless abandon in these songs, and the playing is whip-smart, exacting the maximum force out of the trio format. Cuts like \u201cThe One\u201d show that the group has a good sense of melody, not unlike <i>Dookie<\/i>-era Green Day. The album reverts to a sort of arena-rock vibe for its relatively epic-length closer, \u201cStars of Orion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The band name and the album title might suggest to some that this is an album of sociopolitical commentary. Not so much: this Connecticut trio makes hard-charging rock. The songs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,49,62,65],"tags":[3545],"class_list":["post-15075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-american-amnesia","cat-39-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\/15075","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=15075"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15081,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15075\/revisions\/15081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}