{"id":8273,"date":"2015-08-14T05:30:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T09:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=8273"},"modified":"2015-08-14T05:30:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T09:30:07","slug":"album-mini-review-rose-windows-rose-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/14\/album-mini-review-rose-windows-rose-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Rose Windows &#8212; Rose Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/rose_windows.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nFile next to: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=371\">Black Mountain<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=482\">Black Angels<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B00TEQMLRG&amp;asins=B00TEQMLRG&amp;linkId=4FLIMBXKB36CVIRI&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Talk about promise only partially fulfilled. When <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=4508\">Rose Windows<\/a> released <em>Sun Dogs<\/em>, their 2013, major-label debut, they displayed great potential. With a strong tribal-psych groove reminiscent of <strong>Black Mountain<\/strong>, the young Pacific Northwest group seemed posed for great things. So the news in Spring 2015 that they were disbanding was met with great disappointment. But all is not lost; they leave behind this new self-titled disc, a parting-shot album that delivers on what <em>Sun Dogs<\/em> only suggested. Melodic yet full of heavy\/light contrast that suggests (but rarely sounds like) progressive rock, <em>Rose Windows<\/em> sidesteps the \u201csophomore slump\u201d curse. Hypnotic rhythms and stomping guitars are juxtaposed against folky (yes!) flute\/synth lines. And they top it all off with the expressive, yelping vocals of <strong>Rabia Shaheen Qazi<\/strong>. Now if they had only stuck around for a third album, who knows what fascinating musical journeys they might have revealed.<\/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>File next to: Black Mountain, Black Angels Talk about promise only partially fulfilled. When Rose Windows released Sun Dogs, their 2013, major-label debut, they displayed great potential. With a strong [&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":[49,51,57,62],"tags":[1885],"class_list":["post-8273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-psych","category-rawk","tag-rose-windows","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-57-id","cat-62-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8273","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=8273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}