{"id":15938,"date":"2019-01-19T05:45:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T10:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=15938"},"modified":"2019-03-22T17:16:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T21:16:35","slug":"album-review-american-high-u-n-article-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/19\/album-review-american-high-u-n-article-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: American High \u2013 U.N. Article 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15939\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/american_high.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/american_high.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/american_high-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/american_high-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>For a quick bit of context, \u201cArticle 14\u201d refers to a section of the United Nations\u2019 Universal Declaration of Human Rights stating that people should be free from persecution. (It\u2019s perhaps worth noting \u2013 and more than a bit troubling \u2013 that a 2004 court case in the United States concluded that the 1948 declaration isn\u2019t binding on the USA. Anyway \u2026 to the music.) You may have guessed that this is a politically-themed album, and you\u2019d be <i>sorta<\/i> right. American High is a Sacramento, California based group. And on its second album the group combines a number of stylistic elements to craft an album that will have listeners bopping along even if they don\u2019t pick up on the lyrical messages. The group&#8217;s tight and high vocal harmony is a primary selling point, but the muscular instrumental backing that chugs along under it provides plenty of energy. The most obvious musical touchstone here is Green Day, but American High seems possessed of an even stronger pop sensibility. \u201cCheye Calvo\u201d adds what can only be called world-music elements into an otherwise straightforwardly pop-punk ditty. These guys have catchy musical ideas, and they\u2019re expressed with more stylistic variety than one might expect. A cheery love song, \u201cFairfield, Ca.\u201d is a highlight of the eight-song set. By modern-day measure, <i>U.N. Article 14<\/i> ought to be classified as an EP due to its brevity. But quality wins over quantity every time. A fun listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a quick bit of context, \u201cArticle 14\u201d refers to a section of the United Nations\u2019 Universal Declaration of Human Rights stating that people should be free from persecution. (It\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,62,65],"tags":[3706],"class_list":["post-15938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-rawk","category-review","tag-american-high","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\/15938","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=15938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16548,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15938\/revisions\/16548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}