{"id":19107,"date":"2020-07-14T05:30:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T09:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=19107"},"modified":"2020-07-14T07:57:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T11:57:29","slug":"album-review-coke-belda-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/14\/album-review-coke-belda-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Coke Belda &#8212; 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19108\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/coke_belda4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/coke_belda4.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/coke_belda4-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/coke_belda4-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>If Peter Noone was American, his singing voice might be all but indistinguishable from that of Coke Belda. And the music that Herman\u2019s Hermits made isn\u2019t miles away from the chiming, la-la-la of Belda\u2019s original tunes. On his fourth album &#8212; cleverly titled <em>4<\/em> \u2013 Belda steps away from the tribute approach of his last outing, focusing instead on the chiming ear candy of his own songs.<\/p>\n<p>Belda wears his influences on his sleeve. You may remember Harry Nilsson\u2019s \u201cYou Can\u2019t Do That,\u201d a tune in which Nilsson strung together a bunch of Beatles song titles to make an original song; for his trouble, Nilsson was named as \u201cthe Beatles\u2019 favorite group.\u201d Well, Belda\u2019s done something similar with \u201cThank You, Paul,\u201d a McCartney tribute.<\/p>\n<p>But as the album progresses, it\u2019s clear that Coke Belda has more on his mind. The creamy verses of \u201cAnother Day\u201d (<i>not<\/i> the McCartney song) are contrasted with the soaring, rocking choruses. And that kind of contrast displays Belda\u2019s skills as a songwriter and arranger. Those skills are showcased throughout the album. When he turns the volume down \u2013 as on \u201cBelieve\u201d \u2013 he sounds like he\u2019s writing songs left off of <i>Wild Life<\/i>. But then he rocks out with \u201cOh Why,\u201d a simmering tune with a catchy synth riff. The soaring harmonies and high-energy midsection make it one of the album\u2019s best tracks. \u201c6&#215;8 Basement\u201d goes old-school and may remind some listeners of John Lennon\u2019s \u201c(Just Like) Starting Over.\u201d <i>4<\/i> is one fine record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Peter Noone was American, his singing voice might be all but indistinguishable from that of Coke Belda. And the music that Herman\u2019s Hermits made isn\u2019t miles away from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,62,65],"tags":[3284,1259],"class_list":["post-19107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-rawk","category-review","tag-coke-belda","tag-kool-kat-musik","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\/19107","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=19107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19165,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19107\/revisions\/19165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}