{"id":741,"date":"2010-12-31T10:06:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T10:06:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-12-31T10:06:27","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T10:06:27","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"Shadowgarden: Ashen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Napalm\/Sound Pollution<\/p>\n<p>A good deal of DRACONIAN is present in SHADOWGARDEN; Johan Ericsson and Andreas Hinden\u00e4s formed the band. Also present are drummer Jenny Torstensson and vocalist Lisa Johansson. Gothic rock with seriously groovy refrains are on the menu. <\/p>\n<p>Dissonant sounds and acoustic guitar opens \u201dShadowplay\u201d and the vocals feel right directly. The pace is good and contains a lot of muffled melancholia. Lisa sings \u201cWith Love and a Bullet\u201d giving it a good punch as well as typical female gothic. They add a dimension with a short stop in the oddly named \u201cSorrow\u00b4s Kitchen\u201d, and the refrain is fine. They succeed in producing rock, goth, juicy riffs and solid refrains, combined with, for the genre, unusually excellent melodic patterns. They build the songs towards sticky refrains and finish off with the bombastic \u201cSlowmotion Apocalypse\u201d, an epic with growls and a great riff. I am not being shy, this is one of the best albums in 2010, barely missing out on my top 10 list. This album shows qualities that will put them on my list in 2011, 2012?<\/p>\n<p>Track List<br \/>\nShadowplay<br \/>\nLast Summer<br \/>\nWith Love and a Bullet<br \/>\nThe withering of Mine<br \/>\nSorrow\u00b4s Kitchen<br \/>\n140 AM<br \/>\nMurky Waters<br \/>\nWay Down Low<br \/>\nEmpty Days<br \/>\nSlowmotion Apocalypse<\/p>\n<p>www.napalmrecords.com www.myspace.com\/shadowgardenmusic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Napalm\/Sound Pollution A good deal of DRACONIAN is present in SHADOWGARDEN; Johan Ericsson and Andreas Hinden\u00e4s formed the band. Also present are drummer Jenny Torstensson and vocalist Lisa Johansson. Gothic rock with seriously groovy refrains are on the menu. Dissonant sounds and acoustic guitar opens \u201dShadowplay\u201d and the vocals feel right directly. The pace is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cd_reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}