{"id":11675,"date":"2016-10-28T05:30:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T09:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11675"},"modified":"2016-10-28T08:42:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T12:42:03","slug":"album-mini-review-my-new-mixtape-alone-together-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/28\/album-mini-review-my-new-mixtape-alone-together-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: My New Mixtape &#8212; Alone Together Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11676\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/my_new_mixtape.jpg\" alt=\"my_new_mixtape\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/my_new_mixtape.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/my_new_mixtape-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>File next to: <b>Owsley<\/b>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/05\/dvd-review-fountains-of-wayne-no-better-place\/\"><b>Fountains of Wayne<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Way back in 1968, in a gambit that was a combination poke-in-the-eye to their record company and artistic statement, the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/02\/funny-you-should-mention-it-howard-kaylans-shell-shocked-part-one\/\"><b>Turtles<\/b> <\/a>recorded <i>Present the Battle of the Bands<\/i>. The concept was deceptively simple: 12 song, each rendered in a different style, as if my a dozen separate musical entities. It&#8217;s an under-appreciated classic. Working mostly alone, Viginia-based <b>Jarret Nicolay<\/b> has crafted a similar (and simliarly effective) work in <i>Alone Together Forever<\/i>. His impossibly catchy tunes traverse a number of pop styles: powerpop, bubblegum, synthpop, singer-songwriter, pop-punk, and other radio-ready subgenres. Often as not, the songs tumble into one another, not unlike the approach used on <b>Sloan<\/b>&#8216;s brilliant <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/09\/album-review-sloan-commonwealth\/\"><i>Commonwealth<\/i><\/a> album from 2014. Nicolay&#8217;s sweet voice suits his catchy confections quite well, but even when he rocks out \u2013 as on the giddily crunchy \u201cSelfie Stick\u201d \u2013 he&#8217;s totally in command of the music, lyrics and arrangements. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mynewmixtape.com\/\">Buy it HERE<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Owsley, Fountains of Wayne Way back in 1968, in a gambit that was a combination poke-in-the-eye to their record company and artistic statement, the Turtles recorded Present [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,62,65,73],"tags":[2866,2865],"class_list":["post-11675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-rawk","category-review","category-vinyl","tag-jarret-nicolay","tag-my-new-mixtape","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","cat-73-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675","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=11675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11677,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675\/revisions\/11677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}