{"id":28475,"date":"2024-11-02T05:30:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T09:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=28475"},"modified":"2024-10-28T16:21:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T20:21:49","slug":"album-review-greg-lisher-underwater-detection-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/02\/album-review-greg-lisher-underwater-detection-method\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Greg Lisher \u2013 Underwater Detection Method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28476\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/greg_lisher_udm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/greg_lisher_udm.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/greg_lisher_udm-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/greg_lisher_udm-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>In my line of work, I listen to a lot of music; if not all different kinds, then at least many different kinds. Increasingly, though, when I listen purely for pleasure, these days my first-call, go-to genres are hard bop, soul jazz, krautrock, Cuban jazz, and instrumental music in general. Against that backdrop, I\u2019m luxuriating in <i>Underwater Detection Method<\/i>, the new album from Greg Lisher. Gurgling synths are wedded to analog textures. While much of the instrumentation is in fact electronic, there\u2019s an unmistakably organic feel to this music. It\u2019s anything but cold and robotic.<\/p>\n<p>The song lengths are conventional by pop standards: two and a half to five minutes and out. The tracks are varied in mood and arrangement: some float by placidly, others are evocative of a particular set of moods (you decide what those are, of course). As as much as I enjoy dissonance and angular beats, these tunes have none of that. I am reluctant to use the word <i>pleasant<\/i> to describe Lisher\u2019s compositions, because such a word implies a kind of damning with praise, a backhanded complement. And this music truly merits praise. It sounds like a soundtrack for whatever you might be doing that requires some but not all of your concentration: cooking, for example. But the album goes beyond aural ambiance, and as such it makes a nice active listening experience as well. Truly recommended, <i>Underwater Detection Method<\/i> is one of those albums I expect I\u2019ll return to again and again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my line of work, I listen to a lot of music; if not all different kinds, then at least many different kinds. Increasingly, though, when I listen purely for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26,40,48,49,65],"tags":[5546],"class_list":["post-28475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ambient","category-electronica","category-instrumental","category-new-age","category-new-release","category-review","tag-greg-lisher","cat-5-id","cat-26-id","cat-40-id","cat-48-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28475","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=28475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28477,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28475\/revisions\/28477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}