{"id":41155,"date":"2008-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/morning-tide\/"},"modified":"2008-10-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T00:00:00","slug":"morning-tide","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/morning-tide\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Tide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It\u2019s been a big year for <st1:state><st1:place>California<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> pop music. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Two thousand and eight finally saw the exhaustive re-packaging, re-mastering and re-release of deceased Beach Boy Dennis Wilson\u2019s 1977 Cali-pop-manifesto <i>Pacific Ocean Blue<\/i>, while the far more popular Wilson brother, Brian, released his highly anticipated\u2014and immensely overrated\u2014<i>That Lucky Old Sun<\/i>. Dead or alive, good or bad, if two records penned by two different Beach Boys come out in the same year, it\u2019s gonna be real hard for any other California-pop outfit to make a splash, so to speak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Hopefully Los Angeles-based The Little Ones\u2019 debut full-length album <i>Morning Tide<\/i> won\u2019t be overlooked. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Not that <i>Morning Tide<\/i> is anything extraordinary, but it\u2019s extraordinarily easy to like. This mostly due to how very obviously unafraid The Little Ones are of making glistening, sparkly, relentlessly upbeat, cheery and optimistic pop music. It\u2019s sometimes sickening when bands take the aesthetic of their music in the opposite direction\u2014dreary, pessimistic, cynical, dark and depressing\u2014only because in a very general sense that seems to be an inauthentic representation of how most people feel; at least most young, white, Western twenty-somethings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i>Morning Tide <\/i>is just plain fun. Lead singer and chief lyricist Edward Reyes pushes his pristine, high-registered voice through a delightful blend of shimmering guitars, goofy synth-pads and perfectly restrained drums. Top all that off with an exemplary production and mix and what you get is a slick-ass pop album that not only does good things for the soul but also makes your stereo sound really good. Title track \u201cMorning Tide\u201d is only barely the album\u2019s highlight because it\u2019s immediately followed by some of the best songs of the year: \u201cOrdinary Song,\u201d \u201cBoracay\u201d and \u201cAll Your Modern Boxes.\u201d Eleven tracks in all, <i>Morning Tide<\/i> is excruciatingly difficult to hate because no matter how nauseating its oozing merriness might be, it\u2019s just done so damn well. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Little Ones aren\u2019t positioned to be worldwide superstars or anything extravagant like that; nobody really gets that big anymore anyway. But <i>Morning Tide<\/i> sure is gonna charm the hell out of a whole lot of people. There\u2019s nothing groundbreaking here; it\u2019s just really nice to pick your jaw up off the floor after having read the morning\u2019s dismal news headlines, walk over to the stereo and throw on a record that\u2019ll make you forget just how grim the future looks.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":29562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8284],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-41155","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-little-ones","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41155","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41155"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}