“Hickory dickory dock, some chick was . . .” If you know the rest of that nursery rhyme from Andrew Dice Clay, you are prepared for the amount of cursing on this release. <\/p>\n
Ra’s vocalist\/guitarist Sahaj seems to come from the Clay school of cussing as a means to sound important or to buffer otherwise incompetent material. Sahaj needs to know he doesn’t need it – Ra is a good band. The constant swearing between songs is distracting to the point where you just want him to shut up and stop being an ass leading a band that is only marginally successful. <\/p>\n
That minor success came with the singles “Do You Call My Name” and “Fallen Angels” and the current single “Don’t Turn Away.” Beyond that, though, they are not a household name, and after the amount of cursing here I can see why. You lose count after trying to figure out how many times he cusses; it’s like counting the curses as Clay recites the rest of one of his profane nursery rhymes. <\/p>\n
Musically, I have no problems with the band. “The Only One” and the ballad-ish “Superman” are all strong tracks. There’s an energy in the band’s performance that comes through on this recording. Kicking off with a profane intro by someone who is never introduced, Ra hits the stage with “Fallen Angels,” though the highlight here is the gut-wrenching lyric of “I Lost Everything Today” that I return to each time I listen to this release. <\/p>\n
The release ends with “Do You Call My Name” and the interesting “Skorn.” Of the the two, “Skorn” shows the band’s creative edge; Sahaj explains that a member of their street team took “Skorn” and mixed it with Ludacris. After that introduction, Sahaj launches into a rap with, yep more cussing, that provides a departure from the rest of their material. <\/p>\n
Overall, Ra is a good band that seems on the edge of greatness. But Raw<\/i> is not a great overall package, simply because there’s no need for all the cussing when the musicianship speaks for itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[7911],"rating":[5619],"class_list":["post-40193","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-ra","rating-rating-c"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40193","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=40193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40193"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40193"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}