{"id":25397,"date":"2023-06-11T05:30:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T09:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=25397"},"modified":"2023-05-24T13:16:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:16:31","slug":"album-review-nxtofkin-where-did-we-go-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/11\/album-review-nxtofkin-where-did-we-go-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: NXTOFKIN &#8212; Where Did We Go Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25398\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/nxtofkin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/nxtofkin.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/nxtofkin-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/nxtofkin-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>In much the same way that many music journalists and\/or critics (this one included) are musicians, so too are many record label heads, especially those of the smaller indie variety. So it is that Gordon Anderson of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/28\/the-real-gone-interview-part-1-gordon-anderson\/\">Real Gone Music<\/a> released a fine solo album, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/23\/album-review-gordon-anderson-moon-man\/\"><i>Moon Man<\/i><\/a>, back in 2020. The Real Gone Music head has a musical family as well; daughter Edie is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She\u2019s all of sixteen, but Edie plays all the drums on <i>Where Did We Go Wrong?<\/i>, the debut album from NXTOFKIN. The group is really just Edie and Dad; between them they play all the instruments, write (and mostly co-write) all the songs and sing \u2018em too.<\/p>\n<p>Dad and daughter harmonize wonderfully in that genetically-linked way; that said, often as not their harmonies call to mind John Doe and Exene Cervenka of X, who <i>aren\u2019t<\/i> related. The chaotic punker \u201cBlock Party\u201d gives Edie a chance to rip out a lead guitar solo; this she does with aplomb, verve and more than a bit of genuine punk energy. The album is filled with bratty (in a good way) lyrics, stripped-down rock\/punk arrangement, gonzo guitar (witness \u201cBad for Business\u201d) and an indie rock spirit that makes <i>Where Did we Go Wrong?<\/i> a fun, convertible-top-down, fist-waving fun listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In much the same way that many music journalists and\/or critics (this one included) are musicians, so too are many record label heads, especially those of the smaller indie variety. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,49,59,65],"tags":[923,5164],"class_list":["post-25397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-new-release","category-punk","category-review","tag-gordon-anderson","tag-nxtofkin","cat-39-id","cat-49-id","cat-59-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25397","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=25397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25399,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25397\/revisions\/25399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}