{"id":15434,"date":"2018-10-27T05:30:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T09:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=15434"},"modified":"2018-10-26T15:12:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T19:12:01","slug":"album-review-lord-sonny-the-unifier-final-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/27\/album-review-lord-sonny-the-unifier-final-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Lord Sonny the Unifier &#8212; Final Notice!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15435\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/lord_sonny.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/lord_sonny.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/lord_sonny-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/lord_sonny-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>With a title like \u201cThe Starman,\u201d one might expect a song that bears a passing similarity to the music of the original Starman, David Bowie. And in fact that\u2019s not too wide of the mark; the opening track on <i>Final Notice!<\/i>, the new album from Lord Sonny the Unifier. Lead singer and guitarist Greg Jiritano\u2019s voice favors Mott the Hoople\u2019s Ian Hunter more than the Thin White Duke, but the cool, swaggering and gritty streetwise vibe of Bowie\u2019s early \u201870s work informs the music.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, \u201cThe All New Know Nothings\u201d (perhaps a comment on the current-day MAGA crowd?) sounds and feels musically very much like Bowie\u2019s work circa <i>The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars<\/i>, but the band is possessed of enough personality to steer clear of fetishistic hero worship.<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally the song titles suggest that the Brooklyn group spends just a little too much time focusing on the man who fell to Earth, but while the songs themselves evoke Bowie\u2019s spirit, they never sound like ripoffs. Put another way, this band isn\u2019t likely to earn the nickname Greta Van Bowie.<\/p>\n<p>Jiritano\u2019s sinewy lead guitar does recall Mick Ronson\u2019s work, but in the context of the original songs <i>on Final Notice!<\/i>, it sounds modern \u2026 or at least timeless. Judicious use of Mellotrons and stacked vocal choruses help position Lord Sonny the Unifier with one foot firmly in the present, and the other on (shall we say) Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a title like \u201cThe Starman,\u201d one might expect a song that bears a passing similarity to the music of the original Starman, David Bowie. And in fact that\u2019s not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65],"tags":[3593],"class_list":["post-15434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-lord-sonny-the-unifier","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\/15434","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=15434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15437,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15434\/revisions\/15437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}