{"id":21201,"date":"2021-06-26T05:30:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T09:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=21201"},"modified":"2021-06-28T11:54:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T15:54:33","slug":"album-review-three-layer-cake-stove-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/26\/album-review-three-layer-cake-stove-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Three-Layer Cake \u2013 Stove Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21202\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/three_layer_cake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/three_layer_cake.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/three_layer_cake-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/three_layer_cake-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Bassist Mike Watt is one busy guy. He lends his talents and skills ot myriad creative collaborative projects, and here\u2019s another one. Three-Layer Cake is a trio featuring Watt plus guitarist\/banjoist Brandon Seabrook and drummer\/keyboardist Mike Pride. Is this avant garde? Americana? Electronica of a sort? Jazz? I honestly can\u2019t tell you; Seabrook\u2019s banjo doesn\u2019t sound very folky, and Pride\u2019s drumming is rarely applied in a rock-conventional, move-the-beat-along fashion. Odd stuff to be sure, but entrancing and challenging. And the guitar riffage is sometimes (as on \u201cBig Burner\u201d quite punshing, in a Jeff Beck\u2019s Guitar Shop \u2013 meets Glenn Branca sort of way. But then Prides\u2019 catchy keyboard work comes in. It\u2019s rare that I hear new music that doesn\u2019t remind me of something else. This is the exception. <em>Stove Top<\/em> is way, way, way out there, but it\u2019s a journey worth taking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bassist Mike Watt is one busy guy. He lends his talents and skills ot myriad creative collaborative projects, and here\u2019s another one. Three-Layer Cake is a trio featuring Watt plus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,40,49,65],"tags":[2958,4570],"class_list":["post-21201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avant-garde","category-instrumental","category-new-release","category-review","tag-mike-watt","tag-three-layer-cake","cat-7-id","cat-40-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21201","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=21201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21204,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21201\/revisions\/21204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}