{"id":519,"date":"2007-04-13T16:50:06","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T15:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=519"},"modified":"2007-04-13T16:50:06","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T15:50:06","slug":"groove-armada-soundboy-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"groove armada &#8211; soundboy rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">24 hours ago this new album arrived, and i have to  admit,&nbsp;i have made up my mind about the <STRONG>groove armada  <\/STRONG>album, <EM>soundboy rock, <\/EM>already<EM>. <\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">i don&#8217;t like it. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">i <EM>love <\/EM>the eboy cover though, so fair play  on that score.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">you see the album is one of those dance favoured  listens that likes to drop tracks for each scene. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">so you get an electro track, a euphoric hands in  the air house track, a ragga track, some ambient, a little dub (the  <EM>excellent<\/EM> title track)&nbsp;and even some outkast via p-funk grooves.  <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">while it all sounds rather nice (the production is  very smooth and polished), the overall effect is one of a mess and  chaos.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">no doubt when the lads tour this, the audience will  have the party of their lives, and when certain individual tracks are lifted for  remixes and mixtapes then you&#8217;ll be very impressed.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">however, when it comes to actually listen to the  album, then its not one that soundtracks a mood or anything, instead its a  spread of tracks that in their individual context sound great, but as a whole it  doesn&#8217;t really make for an album that i want to listen from start to  finish.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>more detail<\/EM> : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.groovearmada.com\/\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 hours ago this new album arrived, and i have to admit,&nbsp;i have made up my mind about the groove armada album, soundboy rock, already. i don&#8217;t like it. i love the eboy cover though, so fair play on that score. you see the album is one of those dance favoured listens that likes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}