Ever wonder what Jane’s Addiction would sound like if they were
\nto hit the market today?<\/p>\n
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Anyone, a three-piece band based out
\nof California, whose self-titled album (their first big-label
\nrelease and second overall) is sure to catch many people off-guard.
\nSure, with the funny hairstyles and their less-than-standard
\nappearances, Anyone could easily be lumped into the nu-metal
\ncategory, and listeners might expect industrial-oriented power
\nchording – like I did.<\/p>\n
Boy, was I happy to be wrong about that. There is most
\ndefinitely an edge to Anyone’s music, but it’s tempered with an eye
\non songwriting and overall musical harmony. Listen to a song like
\n“Don’t Wake Me” and try to wonder why such a song isn’t on the
\nradio right now waking rock music out of its teeny-mmm-bop
\ndoldrums. In a stagnant pool of music, Anyone is a fresh drink of
\nwater we’ve been screaming for.<\/p>\n
The band – guitarist\/vocalist Riz Story, bassist Static and
\ndrummer David “Nipples” Murray – interest me because they don’t
\nalways feel like they have to rely on guitar solos to get their
\npoints across. Instead, the songs themselves are the catalysts;
\ntracks like “Don’t Wake Me,” “Whole World’s Insane,” “Giving
\nThrills” and “Wait Until Morning” surprise in their harmonics more
\nthan their musical crunch. It’s a surprising approach, but it’s a
\nwelcome change. Story’s vocals are a cross between Perry Farrell’s
\nand Redd Kross – a little hystrionic, but almost with a retro feel
\nthat makes them pleasing to the ears.<\/p>\n
If there’s any weakness to
\nAnyone<\/i>, it’s that the band builds up such a good head of
\nsteam at the start that when there is a bit of a lull like on
\n“Turnaround” and “Running Dry,” it’s a pretty steep dropoff.
\nFortunately, Anyone is able to recover from these brief lulls with
\nsongs like “Drops Of Miracle” and “Peace Love & Toxic.”<\/p>\n
Chances are good that Anyone might scare people away based on
\nhow they look, and what people will perceive the music to be. But
\nappearances can be deceiving, and the reality of who they are as
\nmusicians is quite pleasing. Give
\nAnyone<\/i> a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6712],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-37332","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-anyone","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37332"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=37332"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=37332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}