{"id":18790,"date":"2020-05-17T05:30:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T09:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=18790"},"modified":"2020-05-05T16:22:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T20:22:44","slug":"album-review-purusa-amnesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/17\/album-review-purusa-amnesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Purusa &#8212; Amnesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18791\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/purusa_amnesia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/purusa_amnesia.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/purusa_amnesia-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/purusa_amnesia-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Impassioned, minor-key rockers are the chosen approach for this Portland-based indie rock band. Their thoughtful lyrics on cuts like \u201cJulien\u201d mean that the songs hold up to close scrutiny, but for those who\u2019d just as soon rock out, Purusa delivers for them as well. Some of Zach Hinkelman and Kris Kirkman\u2019s guitar textures are vaguely reminiscent of the college rock of the \u201880s, which is another way of saying that Purusa likes its sound BIG. \u201cMemory\u201d sounds at times like swaggering early \u201870s rock, but these guys deliver it without a whiff of pretension. Kirkman\u2019s vocals have just the right texture and intensity to soar above and out front of the tuneful instrumental vortex. Midtempo rockers like \u201cDandelion\u201d have a slow burn, and the group knows how to buld from a whisper to a \u2026 well, if not a scream, then a roar. And when the group dials it down \u2013 way down \u2013 on the intro to tunes like \u201cMaybe I Know,\u201d the passion still comes through. Purusa is a band to watch, and <em>Amnesia<\/em> is an album to hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impassioned, minor-key rockers are the chosen approach for this Portland-based indie rock band. Their thoughtful lyrics on cuts like \u201cJulien\u201d mean that the songs hold up to close scrutiny, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,49,62,65],"tags":[4200],"class_list":["post-18790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-purusa","cat-39-id","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\/18790","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=18790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18794,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18790\/revisions\/18794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}