{"id":30450,"date":"2025-11-23T05:40:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=30450"},"modified":"2025-11-19T11:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:02:17","slug":"album-review-the-beatroot-road-humanimal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/23\/album-review-the-beatroot-road-humanimal\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: The Beatroot Road \u2013 Humanimal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30435\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/beatroot_road.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/beatroot_road.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/beatroot_road-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/beatroot_road-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>There are myriad approaches to carving out a place on the musical landscape. Some artists feel most comfortable in a particular style, be it Americana, Scandinavian death metal, hip hop, EDM or somesuch else. Others prefer to defy easy labels, bending each project (song, album, video, whatever) to the stylistic needs, predilections or obsessions of the moment.<\/p>\n<p>The latter seems to be the chosen path of The Beatroot Road. Each of the ten songs on <i>Humanimal<\/i> charts its own musical path, seemingly unencumbered by what the previous or next track sounds like. The title track ls melodic, hypnotic electronica. \u201cUnderground Roots\u201d is equal parts Middle Eastern atmospherics, Latin beats and a <i>very<\/i> subtle prog sensibility. It\u2019s weird, wild and entrancing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArlington\u201d is a wide-screen romantic pop of the sultry variety. The ghostly vocals are alluring, with a character suggesting a film soundtrack. \u201cMilte Hi Ankhen\u201d is a jarring left turn, with an exotic Northern African (or Southeast Asian? Or Both?) character. The hip hop vocals that come in part way through the song are unexpected, to say the least. \u201cDance, Sinners, Dance\u201d combines a reggae beat with some other textures that wouldn\u2019t seme to fit (but kinda do).<\/p>\n<p>There isn\u2019t a lot beyond eclecticism that ties these tracks together, so listeners looking for a unified or consistent musical character are likely to find themselves bewildered by <i>Humanimal<\/i>. But for more adventurous listeners, the album is undeniably fascinating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are myriad approaches to carving out a place on the musical landscape. Some artists feel most comfortable in a particular style, be it Americana, Scandinavian death metal, hip hop, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,49,65],"tags":[5819],"class_list":["post-30450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-new-release","category-review","tag-the-beatroot-road","cat-39-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30450","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=30450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30452,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30450\/revisions\/30452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}