{"id":11153,"date":"2016-07-19T05:45:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T09:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11153"},"modified":"2016-07-13T09:05:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T13:05:25","slug":"album-mini-review-band-of-skulls-by-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/19\/album-mini-review-band-of-skulls-by-default\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Band of Skulls &#8212; By Default"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/band_of_skulls.jpg\" alt=\"band_of_skulls\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/band_of_skulls.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/band_of_skulls-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<iframe style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=as_ss_li_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B01DY2YXYE&#038;asins=B01DY2YXYE&#038;linkId=f84beb8ec27e5ab9e290e800d9add1c8&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nFile next to: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/17\/album-mini-review-led-zeppelin-in-through-the-out-door\/\"><b>Led Zeppelin<\/b><\/a>, <b>Stone Roses<\/b>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/16\/album-review-siena-root-pioneers\/\"><b>Siena Root<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rock substyles come and go, but there&#8217;s always a place for catchy riff-centric rock of the kind made by this Southampton, England trio. They start from a position of building a song around a signature riff, and put solid emphasis on crafting a memorable tune to hold it. There&#8217;s an upbeat party vibe to some of the tunes on <i>By Default<\/i> that recalls British glam of the 1970s like <b>Slade<\/b> or <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/16\/album-review-sweet-action-the-sweet-anthology\/\"><b>Sweet<\/b><\/a>. The backing vocals of bassist <strong>Emma Richardson<\/strong> gives a more rounded-out feel to the harmonies, and the band&#8217;s assured, powerful playing is true to the arena-rocking aesthetic of their forbears. <strong>Band of Skulls<\/strong> is far more popular in their native UK \u2013 their 2009 debut went all but unnoticed in the states \u2013 but the momentum provided by their past few albums could break this, their fifth album, in the USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Led Zeppelin, Stone Roses, Siena Root Rock substyles come and go, but there&#8217;s always a place for catchy riff-centric rock of the kind made by this Southampton, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65],"tags":[2779],"class_list":["post-11153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-band-of-skulls","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\/11153","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=11153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11156,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11153\/revisions\/11156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}