{"id":40147,"date":"2007-01-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/makers\/"},"modified":"2007-01-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T00:00:00","slug":"makers","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/makers\/","title":{"rendered":"Makers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Makers<\/em> is a tribute to everything before Rocky Votolato: His influences, his memories, his insecurities.<\/p>\n

The only thing a singer-songwriter has is his or her compelling ability to strum and verbalize everything we hate about ourselves. Otherwise, you\u2019re just another folkie at the coffeehouse.<\/p>\n

Votolato has an uncommon ability to stick out, though. The scents of fellow Nor\u2019wester Elliot Smith, Simon & Garfunkel and various members of the early alt-country scene help give his own weary groan a familiar aroma.<\/p>\n

Strong, clever and catchy lyrics set up the 12 three-minute soundtracks that alternate between scenes of summer love and autumn benders.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing to stay up all night for the rest of my life \/ \u2019Til the lines around my eyes grow deeper and more defined \/ You might ask me aren\u2019t you dead inside and so damn tired \/ I\u2019ll say I have no idea, I\u2019m not sleeping until after the dying is over,\u201d Votolato sings on \u201cPortland Is Leaving,\u201d one of a handful standout tracks.<\/p>\n

Album opener \u201cWhite Daisy Passing\u201d is an acoustic gem that begs \u201cPlease slow it down \/ There\u2019s a secret magic past world \/ That you only notice when you\u2019re looking back at it \/ All I wanna do is turn around.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Texas native slides some tasty pedal steel guitar over the Uncle Tupelo-flavored \u201cThe Night\u2019s Disguise\u201d and \u201cTennessee Train Tracks.\u201d The ballad-y \u201cShe Was Only In It For The Rain\u201d and \u201cWhere We Left Off\u201d add a traditional folk flavor but weaken the overall blend.<\/p>\n

Perhaps most impressive is Makers<\/em>\u2019 brevity, given the 18 months Votolato put into his fourth full-length. Warmly produced, humbly presented, short and often bittersweet, Makers<\/em> is destined to gain some degree of mass popularity after it\u2019s adapted for end movie credits or as television medical drama background noise.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t wait that long to discover it, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":28661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7895],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-40147","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-rocky-votolato","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40147","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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40147"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}