{"id":15945,"date":"2019-01-19T06:15:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T11:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=15945"},"modified":"2019-01-19T09:10:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T14:10:58","slug":"album-review-heather-gruber-dance-into-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/19\/album-review-heather-gruber-dance-into-the-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Heather Gruber \u2013 Dance into the Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15946\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/heather_gruber.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/heather_gruber.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/heather_gruber-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/heather_gruber-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>A collection of songs designed to convey a narrative of the artist\u2019s sojourn from East Tennessee to Los Angeles, <em>Dance into the Desert<\/em> is shimmering pop. Gruber has a lovely voice, and her knack with a winning melody shines through on all of these songs. At one moment she might me trilling along while plucking on a ukulele (\u201cRunning on Empty,\u201d not the Jackson Browne tune); elsewhere she\u2019s at the piano, Carole King style, delivering the introspective \u201cLost My Halo.\u201d Gruber effortlessly flits up and down t scales vocally, but it\u2019s always in service of her songs, not done in any kind of showy, look-what-I-can-do manner. The instrumentation is tasteful and never bland, and each song seems to have been crafted from the bottom up, each with its own warm and inviting character. Even when exploring potentially melancholy subject matter (\u201cWhat\u2019s So Good About Being Young?\u201d), Gruber\u2019s sunny optimism shines through. Fans of Fiona Apple and Regina Spektor are recommended to seek this out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collection of songs designed to convey a narrative of the artist\u2019s sojourn from East Tennessee to Los Angeles, Dance into the Desert is shimmering pop. Gruber has a lovely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,65],"tags":[3708],"class_list":["post-15945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-review","tag-heather-gruber","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\/15945","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=15945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15947,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15945\/revisions\/15947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}