{"id":19177,"date":"2020-07-26T05:30:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T09:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=19177"},"modified":"2020-07-14T10:34:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T14:34:30","slug":"album-review-the-apartments-in-and-out-of-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/26\/album-review-the-apartments-in-and-out-of-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: The Apartments \u2013 In and Out of the Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19178\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/apartments.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/apartments.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/apartments-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/apartments-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>This album from Peter Milton Walsh\u2019s group features deep-hued melancholy, heartfelt lyrics and a vibe that\u2019s equal parts subdued and impassioned. The group\u2019s sound is reminiscent of a more relaxed version of The Church (The Apartments are Australian as well), though Walsh\u2019s lyrics are decidedly more straightforward than those of Steve Kilbey.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh\u2019s well-worn voice might take a bit of getting used to, but it\u2019s worth the minor effort; it\u2019s the perfect instrument to convey the weary, resigned and sometimes wistful lyrical content. Quite possibly the album\u2019s strongest cut, \u201cWhat\u2019s Beauty to Do?\u201d has some subtly jangle-pop textures, but it\u2019s still consistent in tone with the rest of the albums. \u201cButterfly Kiss\u201d is darkly elegiac, an antipodean cousin to Big Star\u2019s \u201cHolocaust,\u201d with trumpet.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting technique used throughout the album is Walsh\u2019s overdubbed voice singing two different sets of lyrics, sometimes with different melodies. The crosstalk effect is intentionally disorienting, but its effect is to draw the listener further into the music. The music is already inviting, but it\u2019s Walsh\u2019s lyrics that establish the core of <i>In and Out of the Light<\/i>. Heartbreak has rarely been this enjoyable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This album from Peter Milton Walsh\u2019s group features deep-hued melancholy, heartfelt lyrics and a vibe that\u2019s equal parts subdued and impassioned. The group\u2019s sound is reminiscent of a more relaxed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65],"tags":[4261,4260],"class_list":["post-19177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-peter-milton-walsh","tag-the-apartments","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\/19177","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=19177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19179,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19177\/revisions\/19179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}