{"id":16882,"date":"2019-05-25T05:30:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T09:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=16882"},"modified":"2019-05-22T09:05:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T13:05:48","slug":"album-review-marty-thompson-my-kind-of-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/25\/album-review-marty-thompson-my-kind-of-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Marty Thompson &#8212; My Kind of Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16883\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/marty_thompson2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/marty_thompson2.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/marty_thompson2-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/marty_thompson2-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>I expressed some mild reservations about Thompson&#8217;s previous album, 2018&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/23\/album-review-marty-thompson-romantic-stories\/\"><i>Romantic Stories<\/i><\/a>. On the plus side, it was a varied collection. Working against it was a slightly ragged, unfinished production aesthetic. I would never presume to have influenced an artist, but I&#8217;m happy to report that <i>My Kind of Woman<\/i> is a far more professionally-put-together set of songs. Right out of the gate, Thompson&#8217;s \u201cLove is a Waking Dream\u201d has an infectious groove, a solid hood, catchy lyrics and solid production values. And it sets the pace for this album (or EP if you like; it features seven songs, all but one of which are pop-song length). \u201cPaint What You Think\u201d offers some good creative advice, though it&#8217;s a bit insistent about it. The title track slows things down, and feels a bit out of place after the first two high-energy cuts, but it&#8217;s done well. \u201cLush\u201d almost leans into blues territory, with some odd spoken-word bits confusing things a bit. The idiosyncratic \u201cPatience\u201d feels more of a piece with the earlier tracks. \u201cTo the Pebbled Shore\u201d is \u2013 I think \u2013 intentionally muddy\/muddled, but the vibe works with the lyrics. The epic-length \u201cMczebra\u201d takes Thompson&#8217;s generally tidy musical ideas and extends them into a large-scale work. Largely instrumental, it holds interest for all of its seven-plus minutes. Overall, <i>My Kind of Woman<\/i> represents a decisive step forward for Marty Thompson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I expressed some mild reservations about Thompson&#8217;s previous album, 2018&#8217;s Romantic Stories. On the plus side, it was a varied collection. Working against it was a slightly ragged, unfinished production [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65],"tags":[3467],"class_list":["post-16882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-marty-thompson","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16882","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=16882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16884,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16882\/revisions\/16884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}