{"id":10497,"date":"2016-04-05T05:30:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T05:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=10497"},"modified":"2016-04-01T16:21:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T20:21:52","slug":"album-mini-review-coastgaard-devil-on-the-balcony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/05\/album-mini-review-coastgaard-devil-on-the-balcony\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Coastgaard &#8212; Devil on the Balcony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10564\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/coastgaard_devil_on_the_bal.jpg\" alt=\"coastgaard_devil_on_the_bal\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/coastgaard_devil_on_the_bal.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/coastgaard_devil_on_the_bal-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The following was originally published by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoreader.com\/music\/\"><em>San Diego Reader<\/em><\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Though <strong>Coastgaard<\/strong> build their music on a foundation of surf rock, their approach is quite some distance from that of surf revivalists like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/14\/veinte-preguntas-para-los-straitjackets\/\">Los Straitjackets<\/a><\/strong>. There&#8217;s an upbeat, playful aesthetic at work on the group&#8217;s second album, <i>Devil on the Balcony<\/i>, one that places them closer to groups like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/09\/album-review-sloan-commonwealth\/\">Sloan<\/a><\/strong> or <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/05\/dvd-review-fountains-of-wayne-no-better-place\/\">Fountains of Wayne<\/a><\/strong>. A unified sonic approach is the glue that holds together the dozen tunes on <i>Devil on the Balcony<\/i>: reverbed guitars, fuzz bass lines, straight-ahead drums and no-nonsense washes of keyboard all serve to support <strong>Matt Miller<\/strong>&#8216;s lead vocals.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: left; 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=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B019QGUEWW&amp;asins=B019QGUEWW&amp;linkId=c209faa61f00ef8f698a681d82afb013&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> A sense of history pervades the album: the sweet melody of \u201cDear Nessie\u201d recalls <strong>Elvis Costello<\/strong>&#8216;s early 1980s work. \u201cA Well Adjusted Man\u201d and \u201cLandmines\u201d are the disc&#8217;s most overtly surf-rock flavored tune \u2013 and they&#8217;re also among the best here \u2013 but Coastgaard&#8217;s compositional skills extend well beyond the genre. One has to wait until nearly halfway through <i>Devil on the Balcony<\/i> for a guitar solo (\u201cFur\u201d), and that&#8217;s followed by some very evocative Mellotron, then some musical dialogue between wah-wah guitar and piano; this is a disc that rewards the listener who allows the full extent of the album&#8217;s charms to reveal itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The following was originally published by the San Diego Reader.) Though Coastgaard build their music on a foundation of surf rock, their approach is quite some distance from that of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65],"tags":[2657],"class_list":["post-10497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-coastgaard","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10568,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497\/revisions\/10568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}