{"id":6863,"date":"2014-12-16T05:38:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T10:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=6863"},"modified":"2025-09-04T07:47:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:47:51","slug":"album-review-willow-willow-listening-to-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/16\/album-review-willow-willow-listening-to-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Willow Willow &#8212; Listening to Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"bordercolor: #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/willow_willow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"20\" \/><\/center>Sweetly jangling pop that recalls everything from <strong>Let&#8217;s Active<\/strong> to <strong>Lesley Gore<\/strong> to <strong>The La&#8217;s<\/strong> to The Cranberries (<em>especially<\/em> them) to <strong>The Roches<\/strong>, <em>Listening to Music<\/em> benefits from its fetchingly homespun production vibe and understated approach. The crystalline vocal harmonies of <strong>Jessica Vohs<\/strong> and <strong>Miranda Zeiger<\/strong> are <strong>Cowsills<\/strong>-level swoonworthy. If this music doesn&#8217;t make you smile at least a little bit, you&#8217;ve got a heart of stone. Innocent but just the rock side of what the British call \u201ctwee,\u201d this self-released effort deserves a wide hearing; in a just world this duo would hit the big time. Find this album.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" \/> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweetly jangling pop that recalls everything from Let&#8217;s Active to Lesley Gore to The La&#8217;s to The Cranberries (especially them) to The Roches, Listening to Music benefits from its fetchingly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,65],"tags":[2383],"class_list":["post-6863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-review","tag-willow-willow","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-65-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863","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=6863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30051,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863\/revisions\/30051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}