Hybrids are cool — except when they aren\u2019t.\u00a0 An example of the latter would be Pat Boone singing metal classics.\u00a0 An example of the former would be Eric Winzenried and company\u2019s melding of indie guitar rock with hip-hop and reggae.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Yes, Sublime did it first, but on tracks like \u201cHollywood Drunk,\u201d singer-songwriter-co-producer Winzenried and band take a fresh, appealing approach to melding these seemingly disparate styles.\u00a0 Winzenried plays up the hip-hop influences early on, throwing in two brief skits before dropping into the steady flow of \u201c Winzenried\u2019s playfulness reaches full bloom in the pair that follows, as an \u201cAnswering Machine\u201d vignette leads right into \u201cCan\u2019t Stay At My Apartment,\u201d a kiss-off to undesirable couch-crashers everywhere.\u00a0 Alternating between frantic, angry flow on the verses and sarcastic melodiousness on the verses, Winzenried delivers an undeniably funny and well-executed novelty.\u00a0 \u201cPunchline\u201d is another terrific track, full of attitude and hooks, and \u201cCold Day\u201d is a stellar closer, a sincere, straight-up mid-tempo rocker.<\/p>\n Not everything here works as well.\u00a0 \u201cTherapy\u201d has hilarious lyrics, but Winzenried\u2019s wildman-on-bennies delivery is over the top and distracting; a straighter read would have been even funnier.\u00a0 And while the ecelectic mix of styles sprinkled throughout this 16-track disc creates moments of musical euphoria, it\u2019s a little dizzying after awhile unless you\u2019re as caffeinated and\/or inebriated as Winzenried himself apparently is.<\/p>\n Winzenried\u2019s bandmates Alex Irwin (drums), Carl West (bass), Paul Sandberg (keys) and Lloyd Stuart Casson (guitars and production) nail the arrangements again and again, keeping the tone light but tight.\u00a0 Overall, Hooray!!<\/i> is a potent showcase for an act that\u2019s undeniably different, but definitely achieves that unique aura of hybrid cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":29104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8102],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-40624","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-winzenried","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40624","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40624"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}