{"id":14910,"date":"2018-07-21T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=14910"},"modified":"2018-07-20T16:59:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T20:59:27","slug":"album-review-sluka-colorful-radiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/21\/album-review-sluka-colorful-radiation\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Sluka \u2013 Colorful Radiation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I try not to be overly influenced by an album\u2019s cover art: don\u2019t judge a book, etc. But the gruesome artwork on this one nearly scared me off. The music deserves better. Multi-instrumentalist Christopher Sluka has a voice eerily reminiscent of David Bowie, and though he\u2019s not an artist of the late Thin White Duke\u2019s caliber (precious few are!) he has plenty of musical ideas. And he seems intent on stuffing as many as possible into each song. For the engaged listener, that\u2019s a good thing: \u201cNumber one\u201d has enough ideas for several tunes. The more casual listener might get fatigued a bit spinning this disc, but if so, it\u2019s their loss.<\/p>\n

Oddly enough, that dire cover art is by Sluka himself. But hey: I\u2019m a music critic not a visual art critic. Sticking instead to the songs \u2013 ten of them \u2013 is a rewarding experience. I though I detected a vaguely European sensibility within Sluka\u2019s originals songwriting and arrangement, but as it happens he\u2019s a L.A. by way of NYC artist. He explores a variety of textures: drone, trance and so on \u2013 within the context of ear candy melodies. Colorful Radiation<\/i> is ambitious, but ultimately the music holds up to \u2013 and delivers on \u2013 that ambition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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