{"id":15528,"date":"2018-11-10T05:30:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T10:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=15528"},"modified":"2018-11-09T10:26:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T15:26:39","slug":"album-review-geoff-gibbons-shadow-of-a-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/10\/album-review-geoff-gibbons-shadow-of-a-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Geoff Gibbons \u2013 Shadow of a Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15529 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/geoff_gibbons.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/geoff_gibbons.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/geoff_gibbons-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/geoff_gibbons-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Geoff Gibbons is a Vancouver-based singer-songwriter; this four-song EP is merely the latest in a long string of releases. There\u2019s a contemplative and majestic feel to these songs, with arrangements that put the vocals (and, by extension, the lyrics) right out front. The instrumentation is solid and subtle, but it\u2019s all designed specifically to provide a backdrop for those lyrics. The title track of the EP is a rumination on violence and humanity\u2019s, well, inhumanity. But notably, the melancholy song aims to be positive and uplifting. \u201cPlease Remember Me\u201d is a Dylanesque number with accordion, whistling and clippety-clop percussion all in support of Gibbons\u2019 voice and guitar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSoldier Soldier\u201d explores the idea of those in the military ultimately being betrayed by those who sent them to battle; Gibbons\u2019 lyric makes a point of being nonspecific; the effect of that approach is that the song\u2019s message and point are timeless, not tied to any specific situation. \u201cThe Other Side\u201d is a dreamy piece that recalls Dan Fogelberg; the airy arrangement creates a meditative feel. The song&#8217;s backing vocals are ethereal.<\/p>\n<p>At under 18 minutes, <i>Shadow of a Stone <\/i>is brief, but anyone who enjoys this EP can go on to explore at least three previous full-length releases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff Gibbons is a Vancouver-based singer-songwriter; this four-song EP is merely the latest in a long string of releases. There\u2019s a contemplative and majestic feel to these songs, with arrangements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,49,65],"tags":[3613],"class_list":["post-15528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-folk","category-new-release","category-review","tag-geoff-gibbons","cat-30-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15528","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=15528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15530,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15528\/revisions\/15530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}