{"id":16871,"date":"2019-05-18T05:30:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T09:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=16871"},"modified":"2019-05-17T08:50:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T12:50:35","slug":"album-review-outerfield-pleasant-grove-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/18\/album-review-outerfield-pleasant-grove-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Outerfield \u2013 Pleasant Grove Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The opening lick on \u201cWondering If You’re Real\u201d suggests that Pleasant Grove Hotel<\/i> is going to be a swampy, Southern-fried blues rock outing. As it turns out, that description isn’t accurate of the album as a whole. With a basic, two chord foundation (see also: \u201cFeelin’ Alright\u201d and eleventy billion other tunes), it’s a catchy enough tune. But as the album unfolds, Outerfield shows itself to have more ideas. The production is spare and uncluttered, and the meat ‘n’ potatoes rockers are appealing in their own way. Violins (or more likely, keyboard samples therof) are effectively employed on \u201cVoices,\u201d a track that shows this Indiana band to have some welcome nuance. Some of the dissonant chord shadings move beyond mainstream pop into something a bit more ambitions, but still accessible. \u201cStay the Same\u201d has a sort of Black Crowes vibe, with lots of busy guitar lines. \u201cGetting it Right\u201d is classic pop. The album gets more varied as it goes along, but the songs all fit together to provide a portrait of an interesting act. At times the vocals seem a bit enervated, but then there’s a stomping rocker like \u201cVending Machine\u201d that pumps up the volume. \u201cYou Weren’t Done Yet\u201d comes as a late-in-the-album surprise, nailing the woozy, dissolute, raggedy vibe of Big Star’s Third<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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