{"id":23722,"date":"2022-09-18T05:30:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T09:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=23722"},"modified":"2022-09-16T08:27:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T12:27:15","slug":"ep-review-salim-nourallah-see-you-in-marfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/18\/ep-review-salim-nourallah-see-you-in-marfa\/","title":{"rendered":"EP Review: Salim Nourallah \u2013 See You in Marfa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23723\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/salim_nourallah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/salim_nourallah.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/salim_nourallah-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/salim_nourallah-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Salim Nourallah is from Texas, but for <i>See <\/i><i>Y<\/i><i>ou in Marfa<\/i>, his project collaborator is the great Marty Willson-Piper, former guitarist for The Church and a superb musician, singer and composer in his own right. The album was recorded in Nashville, with Willson-Piper\u2019s guitars (on two tracks) cut in the southwest of England.<\/p>\n<p>The five tunes have a folky, Americana\/heartland rock spirit that calls to mind Tom Petty, Old 97s and Pete Yorn. The arrangements are uncluttered and straightforward, and Sourallah\u2019s warm and inviting voice is mixed nice \u2018n\u2019 out front. There\u2019s a pleasant, easygoing jangle to the title track, one that leaves the listener unprepared for \u201cNot Back to Sad,\u201d featuring electric piano and wonderfully unnerving stabs of what-is-that.<\/p>\n<p>Willson-Piper guests on \u201cHold On to the Night,\u201d a bouncy, upbeat tune with a Sgt. Pepper vibe. He\u2019s also present on the acoustic-based \u201cLove\u2019s a Promise,\u201d but fans of The Church are warned against expecting any of the Australian band\u2019s textures. The electric guitar \u2013 when it\u2019s even audible \u2013 is subtle to the point of is-it-there? But set aside who\u2019s doing what and you can simply enjoy a lovely tune. (Some points deducted for Sourallah\u2019s voice cracking repeatedly on the bridge. I\u2019m guessing it\u2019s intentional, but it doesn&#8217;t work for me.)<\/p>\n<p>The rock-leaning songs are front-loaded on this five-song EP. \u201cHate the Waiting\u201d follows on with the subtlety; it\u2019s the sparest tune on the whole set, and while it\u2019s nicely executed, there\u2019s more of the vocal cracking here. With the songs sequenced thusly, the net effect of <i>See You in Marfa<\/i> suggests the sound of an artist running out of steam. As a concept, that\u2019s nothing short of interesting, but I am left wondering. Still, this EP is an intriguing way to spend 16 minutes and change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salim Nourallah is from Texas, but for See You in Marfa, his project collaborator is the great Marty Willson-Piper, former guitarist for The Church and a superb musician, singer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,49,62,65],"tags":[4936,4935],"class_list":["post-23722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americana","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-marty-willson-piper","tag-salim-norallah","cat-6-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\/23722","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=23722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23734,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23722\/revisions\/23734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}