{"id":812,"date":"2015-02-12T13:03:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T13:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s920040513.websitehome.co.uk\/?p=812"},"modified":"2015-02-12T13:03:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T13:03:31","slug":"the-equal-ground-review-the-never-ending-pageant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinclyne.com\/?p=812","title":{"rendered":"The Equal Ground review – The Never Ending Pageant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colin Clyne: The Never Ending Pageant<\/strong>
\nBy Ted Rogen, December 2014<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.theequalground.com\/indie-music-album-reviews\/colin-clyne-the-never-ending-pageant<\/a><\/p>\n

Colin Clyne has too many achievements to mention but my personal favorite is that he opened for Red Hot Chilli Pipers. Besides winning multiple songwriting awards, getting sponsored, working with Grammy award winning engineers and getting constant airplay the guy just came out with a fine album entitled The Never Ending Pageant.<\/p>\n

Right off the bat I would say this is one of the best-engineered albums I have had the opportunity to review. You can\u2019t get this sound with a Presonus Preamp, a hundred dollar interface and computer. The material here is radio ready and indeed does deserves to be getting played on the radio. <\/p>\n

The music is acoustic based folk that synergizes with rock and country. On paper it doesn’t sound that exciting but once it hits your ears I\u2019m sure you will have a change of heart. The music’s strongest appeal is the infectious energy that comes out from the speakers. I would argue that if you play this in a room full of people and you notice they don\u2019t have a bit more pep in their step then you should immediately not talk to those people because they may be lacking a soul.<\/p>\n

The highlights of the album for me were the ones that popped with optimism and joy. Possibly the best song of the album goes to the first one entitled \u201cMerry Go Round\u201d. Clyne proves he is a good, possibly great, vocalist who has a voice that soars across the music. \u201cThis Blue Town\u201d and \u201cSizzle Not the Steak\u201d were formidable songs but not quite as festive as \u201cI\u2019d Rather Do.\u201d \u201cI\u2019d Rather Do\u201d is a country-based song but Clyne sounds at home here. The guitar work is good but the song is held down by a walking bass line that creates a momentum. <\/p>\n

Even Clyne knows you can\u2019t celebrate on every song and shows us on \u201cTop of the Mountain\u201d that his vocals sound good coated with a bit of melancholy. Orchestral strings, guitar and drums create music for him to sing on here. As the album progresses there are a couple of more highlights including \u201cToast the Happy Times\u201d and \u201cPlaying God.\u201d <\/p>\n

I will say that you have to be one cynical guy or gal to not enjoy at least a portion of this album. At eleven songs deep the album has a nice ebb and flow and takes little effort to enjoy. Highly Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colin Clyne: The Never Ending Pageant By Ted Rogen, December 2014 http:\/\/www.theequalground.com\/indie-music-album-reviews\/colin-clyne-the-never-ending-pageant Colin Clyne has too many achievements to mention but my personal favorite is that he opened for Red Hot Chilli Pipers. Besides winning multiple songwriting awards, getting sponsored, working with Grammy award winning engineers and getting constant airplay the guy just came out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press_media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinclyne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinclyne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinclyne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinclyne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinclyne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colinclyne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/colinclyne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinclyne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinclyne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinclyne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}