{"id":41218,"date":"2008-11-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/water-through-stone\/"},"modified":"2008-11-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T00:00:00","slug":"water-through-stone","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/water-through-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Through Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\\\"MsoNormal\\\"\">I get a lot of independent music sent to me &#8212; and thankfully, I now have a new job, which means I get a lot of time to listen to it (Yay). So I&#8217;m slogging through a three-month backlog right now, and I admit that means that if a CD doesn&#8217;t hook me in the first twenty minutes or so, I&#8217;m not likely to listen to it any further.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"\\\"MsoNormal\\\"\">The debut album from <st1:state><st1:place>Utah<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> singer-songwriter Shantell Ogden, on the other hand, had absolutely nothing to worry about. From the first piano lick, I was hooked on <i>Water Through Stone<\/i>. This is a strong, vibrant debut from a talent worth watching.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"\\\"MsoNormal\\\"\">The disc\u2019s sound is spare but rich, a careful balance of the typical hallmarks of acoustic folk with an occasional unexpected twist (the piano on the title track, for example). Ogden&#8217;s voice is crystalline and clear, but unlike many singers in the same vein, she has the pipes to support it; it never seems thin or tentative. Production and engineering by Jay Vern is workmanlike but fits the sound of the album; there may be a little lacking on the bass end, but it&#8217;s not a major quibble.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"\\\"MsoNormal\\\"\">The prime draw on <i>Water Through Stone<\/i>, however, are the magnificent, magnificent songs. &#8220;Stay&#8221; is a powerful ballad about lost love and wanting things never to end. &#8220;We Come Here&#8221; is a chilling and effective indictment of the intersection of religion and hypocrisy. Every song here is effective, confessional, powerful, and worth repeated listens.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"\\\"MsoNormal\\\"\">In a genre crammed with mediocrity, the songsmithing of Shantell Ogden stands out like a spotlight on a dark night. <i>Water Through Stone<\/i> is worth the effort to seek out; you won&#8217;t regret it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":29621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8299],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-41218","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-shantell-ogden","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41218","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=41218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41218"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}