{"id":40865,"date":"2008-05-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/a-750ml-affair\/"},"modified":"2008-05-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T00:00:00","slug":"a-750ml-affair","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/a-750ml-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"A 750ml Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I remember the first time I saw <i>American Beauty<\/i>.\u00a0 After the last scene (which I will not spoil, save to say it\u2019s the cinematic equivalent of a punch to the gut), I just sat there, agape, almost catatonic at the sheer emotional impact. It\u2019s as fresh as if it were yesterday; it was like being hit in the soul by a speeding truck.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">After the first time I listened to the debut release from A 750ml Affair, I felt the same way. Same truck.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The work of a single singer\/songwriter\/instrumentalist, Gregory Rogers, <i>A 750ml Affair<\/i> is a complex, raw, and shiveringly harsh look at one man\u2019s life, how it relates to his dreams and failures, and the big question of What It All Means In The End. It is unblinkingly realistic, slashingly graphic, and completely and utterly brilliant. If art should make you uncomfortable, then this is art; I know damned sure that by the second or third listening (and I have listened to it no less than seven times in two days) I was quivering with the knowledge that the musician\u2019s life could have been mine; I was a hairsbreadth away from being in the same situations he is in and has been in. <i>A 750ml Affair<\/i> could have been me; it has been me; it might be me.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Musically, <i>750<\/i> is proficient to excellent. The music is surprisingly textured and variable for being the work of one man; stylistically, Rogers can move with a chameleon\u2019s facility and grace from churning alternative rock to acoustic singer-songwriter to an almost jazz sensibility with seemingly little effort. As a lyricist, he produces single lines that stick in your head like the memory of a particularly wonderful spring afternoon \u2013 or a particularly graphic car accident. All eleven songs are tight, concise photographs of a moment or an emotion, and they all work. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0I have to give particular praise to the clashing rhythms and denial of emotion of \u00a0\u201cFine,\u201d the vicious, biting anger of \u201cThe Daily Ten,\u201d and the title track (which sounds like the evil twin of a Barry White song).<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It\u2019s rare that I hear something that literally takes my breath away with a hammer strike of emotional impact. <i>A 750ml Affair<\/i> is such an album, and it should not be missed by <i>anyone<\/i>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":29315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[8192],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-40865","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-a-750ml-affair","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40865","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40865"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40865"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}