{"id":21296,"date":"2021-07-25T05:30:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T09:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=21296"},"modified":"2021-07-21T10:36:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T14:36:24","slug":"album-review-circus-mind-joy-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/25\/album-review-circus-mind-joy-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Circus Mind &#8212; Joy Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/circus_mind.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/circus_mind.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/circus_mind-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/circus_mind-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>An excursion into the funk-rock universe, Circus Mind\u2019s <i>Joy Machine<\/i> feels like a party. Signature licks \u2013 lengthy ones, sometimes &#8211; -form the basis of this inviting and energetic release. In the pandemic era, recording individual components in isolation is a given, and people were dong it that way even before COVID. The problem come in when it sounds like it, when the sonics betray the disconnectedness of the enterprise. You won\u2019t find any of that here; though Joy Machine was indeed cut in that manner, the ensemble led by Mark Rechler sounds and feels as if it\u2019s all in room together.<\/p>\n<p>The title track sounds like an unreleased Sly and the Family Stone cut, and features searing lead guitar work by guest player Scott Metzger (of Joe Russo\u2019s Still Dead). In fact guests are all over this album; the credits read like a hip-hop joint, save for the fact that these guests are players. Nels Cline, Mac Ribot and Brandon \u201cTaz\u201d Niederauer are on hand variously throughout the record. And they\u2019re full integrated; not slathered on top; guests they may be, but their work fits seamlessly into the mix. <\/p>\n<p>Truth in labeling: Circus Mind\u2019s <i>Joy Machine<\/i> is an enjoyable and engaging listen, start to finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excursion into the funk-rock universe, Circus Mind\u2019s Joy Machine feels like a party. Signature licks \u2013 lengthy ones, sometimes &#8211; -form the basis of this inviting and energetic release. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,49,65],"tags":[4595],"class_list":["post-21296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-funk","category-new-release","category-review","tag-circus-mind","cat-31-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21296","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=21296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21298,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21296\/revisions\/21298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}