{"id":26810,"date":"2024-01-21T05:30:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T10:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=26810"},"modified":"2024-02-07T17:14:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T22:14:01","slug":"album-review-two-faces-west-postcards-from-lonely-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/21\/album-review-two-faces-west-postcards-from-lonely-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Two Faces West \u2013 Postcards From Lonely Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26811\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/two_faces_west.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/two_faces_west.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/two_faces_west-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/two_faces_west-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>As a direct result of the manner in which it was made, Two Faces West\u2019s debut album is \u2013 in the words of the group \u2013 \u201ca stylistic mess.\u201d The record began its life as an EP project; then new members joined the Denver-based band, additional sessions were organized, and the result displayed the character of the \u201cbefore\u201d and \u201cafter\u201d tracks side by side.<\/p>\n<p>But expansive variety can be a feature, not a bug, if the listener is so inclined. \u201cAin\u2019t Got a Clue\u201d is a funky, melodic groove with some top-notch, in the pocket bass work. The horns may or may not be real, but they sounds good in any event. \u201cVegas at 3AM\u201d is informed by the blues without actually being a blues. \u201cThe Ballad of Jerry Davis\u201d shimmers like country rock infused with a heartland vibe; yes, it sounds like a wholly different group than the one that recorded the arena rock-flavored \u201cMoonshiners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Banjos dominate \u201cRocks Like a Country Song.\u201d The gentle \u201cMountain Sunrise\u201d serves up some instrumental steel guitar work. \u201cBrand New Sit\u201d feels like ZZ Top crossed with Red Hot Chili Pepper (no, really). \u201cLate Night\u201d trades in Hendrix-styled riffage. \u201cSpinnin\u2019 Circles\u201d displays the tight, turn-on-a-dime instrumental prowess of this outfit. \u201cDirty Ol\u2019 Man\u201d throws most all of the aforementioned textures and characteristics into a blender and hits the spin button.<\/p>\n<p>The record closes with some traditional blues in the lengthy \u201cFreedom (Live at The Bluebird 01\/02\/2020).\u201d With its \u201cgolden throat\u201d guitar solo (think of \u201870s Frampton), it, too, sounds like a different band. It\u2019s probably best to think of <i>Postcards From a Lonely Place<\/i> as a mixtape; time spent with this album of diverse songs \u2013 solid as they are \u2013 doesn\u2019t reveal a discernible character that one could easily attribute to one group. The group may be called Two Faces West, but on this album they display many more faces than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a direct result of the manner in which it was made, Two Faces West\u2019s debut album is \u2013 in the words of the group \u2013 \u201ca stylistic mess.\u201d The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,20,49,62,65],"tags":[5324],"class_list":["post-26810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blues","category-country","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-two-faces-west","cat-9-id","cat-20-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\/26810","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=26810"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27051,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26810\/revisions\/27051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}