{"id":41988,"date":"2010-05-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/her\/"},"modified":"2010-05-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T00:00:00","slug":"her","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/her\/","title":{"rendered":"Her"},"content":{"rendered":"

So what do Colleen, Abra, Lila, Gladys<\/st1:city>, Lorraine<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>, Madeline, Marlene, Audrey, Darla, Jasmine, Simone, Leigh, and Britney have in common? They are the names of the songs contained on The Chimeras new album release titled Her.<\/o:p><\/i><\/p>\n

A chimera is a word from Greek mythology. It is a fire breathing she-monster with a lion\u2019s head, a goat\u2019s body, and a serpent\u2019s tail. The present day Chimeras met at Temple University in Philadelphia and consists of bassist\/vocalist Adam Cooper, guitarist\/ vocalist Matt Turnbull, guitarist\/vocalist Dan Ferry, and drummer Shim Perlman. <\/p>\n

Her<\/i> is their second full-length release and it mimics their first by following a theme. Their 2007 debut, Party Of God, <\/i>was based on the wars in Iraq<\/st1:country-region> and Afghanistan<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place> as told by stories from newspapers and television news. <\/p>\n

Now, they have dedicated an albums worth of material to women: real, imagined, fantasized, and archetypal. Gladys is a real living and breathing woman who works at a Wendy\u2019s restaurant that the band frequents. Lorraine was inspired by Gloria Swanson\u2019s character in the film Sunset Boulevard<\/i>, <\/i>while Abra is a character in East Of Eden. <\/i>The Chimeras has raided books, movies, and the lives of friends to find their material, which adds up to a unique listen.<\/p>\n

Their sound falls into the alternative rock category, complete with jangling guitars. The musicianship is more than competent, but it is the witty and well-constructed lyrics that stand out. The major problem is the production, which does not do the material justice. It sounds a little washed out and does not have a complete clarity. The band members have stated their goal at first was to be more of a basement recording band, and they mention a reel-to-reel tape recording. Their music is sophisticated enough that they need to find a way to do a better job in the recording studio.<\/p>\n

The Chimeras are a work in progress, but they have invented a unique way of assembling an album. I hope they explore other themes in the future as they are an interesting group and seem to have a lot of potential. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":30329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8577],"rating":[5612],"class_list":["post-41988","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-chimeras","rating-rating-b-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41988","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41988"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}