As frontman of the legendary Bad Religion, Greg Graffin has become a punk rock icon and one of the best singers in punk history. As a solo artist, he goes for a complete 180. On this his third solo record in 20 years, he strips down to acoustic folk and the results are just a bit head scratching.<\/p>\n
The folky \u201cBackroads Of My Mind\u201d is very weird and doesn\u2019t do a single thing for me. It doesn\u2019t get me riled up, excited, or even thinking about anything; it just kind of sits there. Same thing goes for \u201cToo Many Virtues,\u201d which comes across like a weird country song and is definitely not for the average Bad Religion fan.<\/p>\n
Not all is lost, though. \u201cLincoln\u2019s Funeral Train\u201d has a bit more punch to it and was a bit more to my liking. It\u2019s without a doubt one of the best songs here. \u201cMaking Time\u201d is another track that slightly works; while it\u2019s just okay, it doesn\u2019t have the same weightiness as the previously mentioned \u201cLincoln.\u201d <\/p>\n
Then the weirdness really begins. \u201cTime Of Need\u201d ends up coming across like an oddball gospel song. It definitely isn\u2019t for everyone and ends up being one of the weirder tracks here. \u201cEcho On The Hill\u201d has the oddest sort of Mumford And Sons type sound that is the most surprising of all and has to be one of the most unexpected things I\u2019ve heard in quite some time. Album closer \u201cWaxwings\u201d feels like another old timey country track and is definitely not for the faint of heart. <\/p>\n
All in all, if you\u2019re not already familiar with Graffin\u2019s solo follies and are trying to get into it for the first time, you may be in for quite an unpleasant surprise. This is not bad, but he\u2019s better sticking with Bad Religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":33103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[9981],"rating":[5619],"class_list":["post-44892","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-greg-graffin","rating-rating-c"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44892","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\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44892"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44892"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}