{"id":37964,"date":"2004-05-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/saving-rock-n-roll\/"},"modified":"2004-05-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-28T00:00:00","slug":"saving-rock-n-roll","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/saving-rock-n-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Rock N’ Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"

Project Bottlecap is a five-piece from Indianapolis. This CD
\nlived in my CD player for many months, getting repeated listens in
\na single day. With each listen, the band’s drummer, Dan, gets
\nbetter and better. Pat, the vocalist, gets more tenacity in his
\nvocals during songs like “Open Up Your Door” and more melodic
\nduring the best song on the CD “New Beginnings.” Guitarists Jasin
\nand Brad get more impressive and . . . well, who really listens to
\na bass player? <\/p>\n

The title track gets this off to a good start with Pat running
\nthrough a litany of musical genres after declaring, “I am a better
\nman\/ look inside my head\/ see the man inside is already\/ dancing on
\nmy grave.” Later, the litany, “I will find it in the music\/ in the
\npunk rock, the hip hop, the emo, the screamo, the hardcore, the
\nmetal, the country, and the blues.” Leave any out?<\/p>\n

I don’t think so, which makes this band smarter than many
\nothers. They realize that their sounds come from many influences
\nand, if you listen to this CD as many times as I have, you hear
\nthem. The least obvious are the country and blues influence. The
\nbest I can come up with is that the songs on here deal with
\nrelationships that have gone wrong, like the recent country song
\n“What Was I Thinking?” I know the name of a country
\nsong.<\/p>\n

I think what gets this band above other bands in the punk\/emo
\ngenre is the ease with which this band shifts from one mood to
\nanother and among the aggressive instrumentals, the band knows when
\nto tone down its message. This is most evident in “Out of Habitat.”
\nPat sings, “I think that somebody’s been poking at my cocoon\/ cause
\nI don’t seem to be developing.”<\/p>\n

There is a strong sense of “coming out of a cocoon” on this
\nrelease. The lyrics reflect a journey in life to a world of love
\nand lost relationships. In “Easy,” Pat sings, “I thought it would
\nbe easy \/ to let you out times (sic) backdoor \/ But now I’m feeling
\nso messed up \/ This ain’t easy like it was before.” Then in
\n“Eastside,” he sings, “Everyone around me is getting married \/ I
\ndon’t even think I know what love is.”<\/p>\n

At the same time, the band has a sly sense of humor. In “A Call
\nTo Arms,” in a very non-threatening tone, Pat sings, “I swear if I
\nhear another Dave Matthews song\/ I’m gonna tar out these speakers \/
\n. . . I swear if I see another Britney Spears \/ I’m gonna burn down
\nevery house I ever built.” The trick in these lyrics is that they
\nare delivered in laid-back fashion, without an ounce of
\nhostility.<\/p>\n

The disc ends with a hidden track that concludes the CD on a
\npositive note. I am anxious to hear more from this band. They are
\nworking on the next CD, according to their
\nWeb
\nsite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[7022],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-37964","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-project-bottlecap","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37964","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37964"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=37964"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=37964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}