{"id":41876,"date":"2010-02-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/the-painful-side-of-true\/"},"modified":"2010-02-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T00:00:00","slug":"the-painful-side-of-true","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/the-painful-side-of-true\/","title":{"rendered":"The Painful Side Of True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt\">Congratulations Sexstone. I feel this release.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt\">Sexstone would have a high place among the musical landscape across these United States if they would sing about sex, drugs, and boozin\u2019 up. The world is not a perfect place, though, and this quartet from Kentucky avoids the clich\u00e9s that have driven the commercial success of Hinder and Buckcherry. Entirely and completely, this is good news to those listeners who feel this band\u2019s pain through their material.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt\">The album begins with opening lyrics by vocalist Steven Bauer: \u201cI just want to thank you \/ For taking the best part of me \/ And drowning me \/ Yes thank you \/ For putting me into this state \/ Of anarchy\u201d and continues with each band member joining the song. It is the best way this release could have possibly opened. Hooked initially with Bauer\u2019s emotional tirade, the song then has bassist Trent Riley entering the mix with a bass groove that cements the song. He plays an interlude under guitarist Steve Wheeler\u2019s straightforward riff. Drummer Troy Dalton\u2019s drum fills are understated, yet drive the song forward.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt\">And so it goes on like that for Sexstone. Wheeler\u2019s acoustic guitar begins \u201cWhere,\u201d a ballad that showcases Dalton\u2019s hi-hat and tom tones. Later, Bauer bleeds his soul as he sings the lyrically depressing \u201cMy Night,\u201d which talks about how \u201cMy nights are dark and filled \/ with thoughts of how to end this pain \/ And even on a sunny day \/ All I see is darkness in the rain.\u201d He continues singing about his ideal life and how his current situation is anything but ideal. The equally depressing \u201cWait for Me (Soldiers Song)\u201d traces the story of a soldier leaving and not being able to see the birth of a child as a result. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt\">This is a top-tier group of four musicians whose motto \u201cIt you can\u2019t feel it, it\u2019s not worth listening to\u201d is demonstrated with each track on this disc. Based solely upon the manner in which vocalist Steven Bauer wrenches his soul to deliver a stellar performance on each and every song on this release, I feel the frustration and bitterness in Bauer\u2019s vocals. I feel the power in the drum fills from Troy Dalton, never overpowering but always letting his presence be felt. I feel it in guitarist Steve Wheeler\u2019s tasteful leads and simplistic rhythm guitar riffs, as well in the rumbling of Trent Riley\u2019s bass guitar. I feel this release. You will feel it, too, after you purchase it.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8527],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-41876","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-sexstone","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41876","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=41876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41876"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}