{"id":15941,"date":"2019-01-19T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=15941"},"modified":"2019-01-19T09:09:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T14:09:31","slug":"ep-review-carnymusic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/19\/ep-review-carnymusic\/","title":{"rendered":"EP Review \u2013 CarnyMusic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15942\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/carnymusic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/carnymusic.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/carnymusic-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/carnymusic-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>CarnyMusic is the name San Francisco-based multi-intrumentalist, singer and songwriter Mike Carnahan gives to his latest project. A four-song, 18 minute set, this self-titled EP features somber, melancholy textures on \u201cRiptide.\u201d The spare funereal drum and insistent, folky acoustic guitar provide backing for Carnahan\u2019s faraway vocal; some carefully-added sonic elements (keening and ghostly guitar lines, for example) add a haunted vibe. Carnahan\u2019s overdubbed vocal harmonies add sophistication and finish. If you like what you hear on \u201cRiptide,\u201d you may be pleased to discover three more tunes very much like it; if you&#8217;re looking for variety, you may well come away slightly disappointed. There\u2019s a Fleet Foxes feel to \u201cStart Another Week,\u201d and \u201cClose your Eyes\u201d is even more haunted than the opening track, but overall, <i>CarnyMusic<\/i> suffers from its slightly one-dimensional approach to songcraft. If you like what Carnahan has on offer\u2014and there are many reason you should\u2014<i>CarnyMusic<\/i> represents a potentially rewarding (if brief) aural experience. If not, then, well, it doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CarnyMusic is the name San Francisco-based multi-intrumentalist, singer and songwriter Mike Carnahan gives to his latest project. A four-song, 18 minute set, this self-titled EP features somber, melancholy textures on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,49,65],"tags":[3707],"class_list":["post-15941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-folk","category-new-release","category-review","tag-carnymusic","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\/15941","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=15941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15944,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15941\/revisions\/15944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}