{"id":15716,"date":"2018-11-24T05:30:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T10:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=15716"},"modified":"2018-11-23T12:18:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T17:18:04","slug":"album-review-peter-senior-on-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/24\/album-review-peter-senior-on-the-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Peter Senior &#8212; On the Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15717\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/peter_senior.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/peter_senior.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/peter_senior-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/peter_senior-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>There\u2019s a gospel feel informing \u201cLittle Lovin\u2019,\u201d the opening track of Sydney-based pop-rocker Peter Senior\u2019s <i>On the Edge<\/i>. The uptempo tune has an arrangement vaguely reminiscent of Billy Joel\u2019s forays into rock, but \u2013 unlike Joel \u2013 Senior seems quite comfortable in the vintage-flavored rock idiom. The chord progressions are warmly familiar, and the brass and vocal arrangements lean in a very commercial direction, with a slightly showy vibe. \u201cBaby I Love you\u201d isn\u2019t the early rock classic; it\u2019s a now song with a feel not miles away from that Brill Building gem.<\/p>\n<p>Senior\u2019s songwriting is sturdy and radio-friendly; if there\u2019s a shortcoming to his work, it\u2019s that it\u2019s sometimes a bit too familiar; some of the songs sound as if they were written expressly to conjure the feelings \u2013 if not specific memories \u2013 of songs written a half century ago. His balladry \u2013 on songs like \u201cDoin\u2019 OK\u201d \u2013 has the same qualities, evoking singer-songwriters like (early) Billy Joel. As <i>On the Edge<\/i> unfolds, it reveals more of Senior\u2019s stylistic palette; bits of country even crop up on \u201cSoft Rain.\u201d The album often threatens to rock, but pulls back from the edge (so to speak).<\/p>\n<p>My suspicion is \u2013 and I say this as a keyboardist myself \u2013 piano players have a particular musical vocabulary and\/or set of tools that can empower them to write catchy melodies, but \u2013 with some exceptions \u2013 not ones that rock. But considered in the context of a rock-leaning keyboardist\/composer with an appealing voice, <i>On the Edge<\/i> is a pleasing collection of tunes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a gospel feel informing \u201cLittle Lovin\u2019,\u201d the opening track of Sydney-based pop-rocker Peter Senior\u2019s On the Edge. The uptempo tune has an arrangement vaguely reminiscent of Billy Joel\u2019s forays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,65],"tags":[3646],"class_list":["post-15716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-review","tag-peter-senior","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15716","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=15716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15718,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15716\/revisions\/15718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}