{"id":15790,"date":"2018-12-16T05:15:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T10:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=15790"},"modified":"2018-12-16T10:50:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T15:50:39","slug":"album-review-todd-warner-moore-spark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/16\/album-review-todd-warner-moore-spark\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Todd Warner Moore &#8212; Spark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15791\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toddw_moore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toddw_moore.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toddw_moore-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toddw_moore-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>When an album of music opens with a spoken-word prologue, it positions itself as, well, a certain kind of album. And Todd Warner Moore\u2019s <i>Spark<\/i> starts just that way, hipping new listeners to the fact that this is likely to be a somewhat literate, story-based collection of songs. And that\u2019s about right. There\u2019s a strong Celtic folk vibe to these songs, leavened with relatively modern-folk arrangement and production values.<\/p>\n<p>Moore is American-born, but he\u2019s an American of the well-traveled sort, and that quality informs his music in positive ways. <i>Spark<\/i>, his second album, draws from world folk traditions, but Moore\u2019s songs don\u2019t really have any kind of world-dilettante vibe. He\u2019s often joined on vocals by Leah Hart, who\u2019s billed in the credits for \u201cbacking vocals\u201d but often rises to the level of duet singer. The shimmering acostic gutiars nad soothing string accompaniment (violin, viola, cello) all combine nicely to create an easy listening sort of modern folk-pop.<\/p>\n<p>The songs are economical affairs; none extends past the four-minute mark. His songwriting is consistently appealing, with only a rare misstep (the too-cute \u201cNoodles\u201d) impeding the flow. But tunes like \u201cDo You Really Know\u201d more than make up for the occasional mawkishness. A live track (\u201cThe Lens\u201d) provides strong evidence that Todd Warner Moore and his music are best experienced up-close and personal, but for those not traveling to Hong Kong (his current residence) <i>Spark<\/i> is the next best thing to being there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When an album of music opens with a spoken-word prologue, it positions itself as, well, a certain kind of album. And Todd Warner Moore\u2019s Spark starts just that way, hipping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,49,51,65],"tags":[3665],"class_list":["post-15790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-folk","category-new-release","category-pop","category-review","tag-todd-warner-moore","cat-30-id","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\/15790","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=15790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15793,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15790\/revisions\/15793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}