{"id":16584,"date":"2019-03-30T05:30:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T09:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=16584"},"modified":"2019-03-26T16:41:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T20:41:29","slug":"ep-review-damon-mitchell-elise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/30\/ep-review-damon-mitchell-elise\/","title":{"rendered":"EP Review: Damon Mitchell \u2013 Elise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16585\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/damon_mitchell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/damon_mitchell.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/damon_mitchell-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Bright, intelligent pop is the m\u00e9tier of Damon Mitchell. Fans of Owsley, Jellyfish, Ben Folds and similar purveyors of pure pop will find much to like in these six tunes. \u201cHeist\u201d sports some falsetto vocals that recall the best qualities of early Beach Boys, with a good bit of quirk added. The wonderfully melancholy \u201cJust a Face\u201d takes thing in a more contemplative direction, with a feel likely influenced by mid-sixties Beatles and\/or the Paisley Underground movement. \u201cLicense Plate\u201d applies the same values to a subtly Americana-feeling tune complete with a fiddle solo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSalo\u201d is a breathy singer-songwriter styled tune; as catchy and alluring as its melody is, Mitchell\u2019s singing is the centerpiece of the song. Some unexpected chord changes pull the song outside of the pop framework, but a little musical ambition isn\u2019t a bad thing. Slipping in a few lyrical bits from The Band\u2019s \u201cThe Weight\u201d is clever in this context, too.<\/p>\n<p>The delightful \u201cWorld in Her Eyes\u201d is wholly unexpected. It sounds like Burt Bacharach and Herb Alpert dropped by the studio. Mitchell seems to meander a bit around the melody, but when that trumpet kicks in, all is forgiven (he does at least as well as Herb did on \u201cThis Guy\u2019s in Love With You\u201d). The EP wraps up with its title track, the rocking-est of the six cuts. Some tasty electric piano enlivens the arrangement, and the guitar solos provides two of the set\u2019s best moments.<\/p>\n<p>Fun\/random fact: Nick D\u2019Virgilio \u2013 formerly of Spock&#8217;s Beard and one of the best progressive rock drummers in the business \u2013 plays on three of this EP\u2019s tracks. There\u2019s little about <i>Elise<\/i> that falls into the prog category, but it\u2019s a fine collection of pop nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bright, intelligent pop is the m\u00e9tier of Damon Mitchell. Fans of Owsley, Jellyfish, Ben Folds and similar purveyors of pure pop will find much to like in these six tunes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,62,65],"tags":[3808],"class_list":["post-16584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-rawk","category-review","tag-damon-mitchell","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\/16584","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=16584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16587,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16584\/revisions\/16587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}