{"id":16177,"date":"2019-03-02T05:30:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T10:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=16177"},"modified":"2019-02-28T16:06:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T21:06:34","slug":"ep-review-david-browning-now-you-see-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/02\/ep-review-david-browning-now-you-see-me\/","title":{"rendered":"EP Review: David Browning &#8212; Now You See Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16178\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/david_browning.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/david_browning.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/david_browning-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/david_browning-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Now You See Me<\/i> is a three-song EP from South Africa-born electronic pop artist David Browning. Currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia, he has a background working on Disney Cruise Line. He\u2019s a family physician as well, but still finds time for a creatively fertile venture into music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStay Over\u201d opens the EP with a nice balance of electronic and organic textures. A hypnotic, simple chord progression played on electric piano engages in a brief dialogue with finger snapped rhythm. Browning\u2019s soothing lead vocal is note-perfect and \u2013 this is important \u2013 it doesn\u2019t suffer from over processing of the Autotune variety. As the the track unfolds, it traffics in more conventional and familiar dance-pop textures, but the strong melody makes sure that \u201cStay Over\u201d rises above conventional offering in the style. The arrangement chills down toward its end, giving dancer a chance to catch their breath.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCall Me When You\u2019re Single\u201d adheres more closely to standard electro-pop fare, and the dreaded Autotune does rear its overused head here. The message of the song\u2019s title has pretty well been mined clean, but the melody is catchy enough that the song still succeeds for what it is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlways Inside\u201d begins with a solo piano tapping out an insistent, minor-chord figure. Browning displays his stylistic range here by delivering a melancholy weeper, albeit one with such a lush arrangement that it\u2019s difficult not to get swept up in its emotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now You See Me is a three-song EP from South Africa-born electronic pop artist David Browning. Currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia, he has a background working on Disney Cruise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,49,51,65],"tags":[3735],"class_list":["post-16177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electronica","category-new-release","category-pop","category-review","tag-david-browning","cat-26-id","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16177","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=16177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16182,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16177\/revisions\/16182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}