{"id":21205,"date":"2021-06-28T05:30:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T09:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=21205"},"modified":"2021-06-28T11:57:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T15:57:03","slug":"album-review-the-legal-matters-chapter-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/28\/album-review-the-legal-matters-chapter-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: The Legal Matters \u2013 Chapter Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21206\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/legal_matters3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/legal_matters3.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/legal_matters3-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/legal_matters3-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>This record is the third release from the Michigan trio. And this my third time writing a review of their material. Guess why? Because Andy Reed, Chris Richards and Keith Klingensmith have a demonstrated ability to write, play and sing highly melodic rockin\u2019 tunes. The cheery \u201cLight Up the Sky\u201d hints that <i>Chapter Three<\/i> is going to be a certain kind of appealing rock. Pleasing as that tune may be, it only scratches at the surface of the group\u2019s abilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndependence Well Spent\u201d has an uber-heavy riff that leads into a lilting tune. It\u2019s the kind of music that easily transcends that rock subgenre I\u2019m endeavoring to avoid mentioning here. The band\u2019s intelligent use of analog-sounding synth lines here and there adds another layer to their guitar\/bass\/trio sound. And the genre-defying continues with tunes like \u201cThat\u2019s All,\u201d with spaghetti western guitar textures), the piano-centric \u201cThe Painter,\u201d plaintive, Beach Boys-influenced pop of \u201cDon\u2019t Read Between the Lines,\u201d weepy balladeering of \u201cPain,\u201d and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the album, the group\u2019s wonderful close harmony work is always a treat. If your thing is melodic, midtempo rock a la Badfinger and Matthew Sweet, this album deserves a place in your collection. (The same is true for the band\u2019s previous two albums.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This record is the third release from the Michigan trio. And this my third time writing a review of their material. Guess why? Because Andy Reed, Chris Richards and Keith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,62,65],"tags":[199,4573,4572,2957,2165],"class_list":["post-21205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-rawk","category-review","tag-andy-reed","tag-chris-richards","tag-keith-klingensmith","tag-legal-matters","tag-the-legal-matters","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\/21205","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=21205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21207,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21205\/revisions\/21207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}