{"id":16575,"date":"2019-03-30T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=16575"},"modified":"2019-03-26T16:35:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T20:35:20","slug":"ep-review-patrick-ames-all-i-do-is-bleed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/30\/ep-review-patrick-ames-all-i-do-is-bleed\/","title":{"rendered":"EP Review: Patrick Ames \u2013 All I Do is Bleed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16576\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/patrick_ames.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/patrick_ames.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/patrick_ames-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/patrick_ames-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>\u201cI Want You\u201d opens with a slightly mysterious-sounding acoustic guitar strum, quickly setting a mood. That mood s quickly shattered when Ames starts singing; his rush of words sounds more like a nightclub-era Woody Allen routine than a singer-songwriter. His lyrics are interesting enough, but ending each phrase with a whiny \u201caaaahhhh\u201d seems an odd affectation. The backing singers (Chana and Mikaila Matthews) add a measure of professionalism to the proceedings, but the whiny vocal \u2013 mixed very forward in the arrangement \u2013 isn\u2019t appealing. The gently picked guitar parts are nice enough, but \u2013 <i>oh<\/i> \u2013 those vocals!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQueen Kae\u201d is far superior, focusing on acoustic instrumentation and the backing singers\u2019 (presumably) treated oooohhh vocals. The oddly bleated refrains of the title don\u2019t add anything of value to the piece, though.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile You Were Making Babies\u201d is musically appealing, but its lyrics are beyond strange. The singer recounts to the object of his affection that while she was making babies, he was sitting on the couch. O-kayyyy. The vocal arrangement seems oddly thrown together, as if during the session, the (very skilled) harmony vocalists had access to the musical backing track but not Ames\u2019 lead vocal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTe Amba Locamente\u201d (\u201cHe Ambles You Madly\u201d) is easily the best track of the four. Ames\u2019 singing still won\u2019t win any awards, but the Latin-flavored arrangement is appealing enough.<\/p>\n<p>Verdict: a quirky and deeply idiosyncratic release that nonetheless may interest fans of outsider music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI Want You\u201d opens with a slightly mysterious-sounding acoustic guitar strum, quickly setting a mood. That mood s quickly shattered when Ames starts singing; his rush of words sounds more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,49,65],"tags":[3805],"class_list":["post-16575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-incredibly-strange","category-new-release","category-review","tag-patrick-ames","cat-38-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16575","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=16575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16577,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16575\/revisions\/16577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}