{"id":47469,"date":"2018-03-30T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/?guid=68df88a0e082bc2615064dce4d2ae136"},"modified":"2018-03-30T07:23:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T12:23:00","slug":"brand-new-day-by-uncle-spider-the-electric-dirt-clods-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/30\/brand-new-day-by-uncle-spider-the-electric-dirt-clods-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Brand New Day by Uncle Spider &amp; The Electric Dirt Clods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/usrimgs.broadjam.com\/2\/2068\/tmb_150x150_2068_236393.jpg\" title=\"Uncle Spider &#038; The Electric Dirt Clods\" alt=\"Uncle Spider &#038; The Electric Dirt Clods\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/redwinemusic\">Uncle Spider &#038; The Electric Dirt Clods<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=561&#038;mediaID=1919\">Brand New Day<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Reviewer: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/home.php?artistID=80582\">Jeff Roberts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Positive Comments: <\/b>At first this reminds me of The Human League (Don&#8217;t You Want Me Baby?).  Definitely in the 80&#8217;s school &#8211;Human League, Howard Jones, Thompson Twins&#8230;  It&#8217;s a well-crafted tune, and the vocal performance is strong with a nice tenor voice<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>The overall EQ of the instrumental tracks is very high mid without the satisfaction of a thicker bass section.  I think I&#8217;d want to reel in the highs on the high hat \/ drum parts and make them more subdued and lofi, and remove the &#8220;syndrum&#8221; tom tom fills.  Having some counterpoint 16th note sequenced key parts to add low level texture would be good (I think).  There&#8217;s one basic rhythm\/progression box here&#8211;it would make the tune breathe if you got out of that&#8211;mostly that would be altering the underlying drum grooves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/usrimgs.broadjam.com\/2\/2068\/tmb_150x150_2068_236393.jpg\" title=\"Uncle Spider &amp; The Electric Dirt Clods\" alt=\"Uncle Spider &amp; The Electric Dirt Clods\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/redwinemusic\">Uncle Spider &amp; The Electric Dirt Clods<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=561&amp;mediaID=1919\">Brand New Day<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Reviewer: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/home.php?artistID=80582\">Jeff Roberts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Positive Comments: <\/b>At first this reminds me of The Human League (Don&#8217;t You Want Me Baby?).  Definitely in the 80&#8217;s school &#8211;Human League, Howard Jones, Thompson Twins&#8230;  It&#8217;s a well-crafted tune, and the vocal performance is strong with a nice tenor voice<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>The overall EQ of the instrumental tracks is very high mid without the satisfaction of a thicker bass section.  I think I&#8217;d want to reel in the highs on the high hat \/ drum parts and make them more subdued and lofi, and remove the &#8220;syndrum&#8221; tom tom fills.  Having some counterpoint 16th note sequenced key parts to add low level texture would be good (I think).  There&#8217;s one basic rhythm\/progression box here&#8211;it would make the tune breathe if you got out of that&#8211;mostly that would be altering the underlying drum grooves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47470,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47469\/revisions\/47470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}