{"id":45083,"date":"2017-09-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/i-am-the-cosmos-deluxe-edition\/"},"modified":"2017-09-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T00:00:00","slug":"i-am-the-cosmos-deluxe-edition","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/i-am-the-cosmos-deluxe-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am The Cosmos (Deluxe Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since Alex Chilton\u2019s death, everything Big Star and everything associated with Big Star is being reissued. The latest entry in the Big Star sweepstakes is a two-disc expanded version of Chris Bell\u2019s <em>I Am The Cosmos.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bell was a founding member of Big Star\u00a0but left the band after their first release. His contributions helped establish the sound that made the band a cult favorite. His solo career came to an abrupt end in 1978 at the age of 27 when he died in motor vehicle accident.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, his pre-Big Star material was gathered together and issued as <em>Looking Forward. <\/em>It was a hit-or-miss affair, showcasing a young\u00a0artist leaning his craft. <em>I Am The Cosmos <\/em>is a fully realized release. It finds Bell experimenting, not always successfully, and looking to the future, which unfotunately never came. As such, it remains his best album and a treat for any fan of Bell or Big Star.<\/p>\n<p>It is an album that moves in a number of directions. \u201cSpeed Of Sound,\u201d \u201cGet Away,\u201d \u201cI Don\u2019t Know,\u201d and \u201cI Got Kinda Lost\u201d fit the Big Star sound and would have fit any of their albums. \u201cYou And Your Sister,\u201d both the single and the acoustic version on this disc, find him moving in a different direction and showing off\u00a0his guitar work. The title track is a well thought out and mature recording of his thoughts at the time.<\/p>\n<p>There are some misses, but they are all just a part of a musician moving from a band setting to becoming a solo artist.<\/p>\n<p>The second disc is comprised of 19 alternate versions of songs, unreleased material,\u00a0and outtakes. It all\u00a0holds together well and hints at what his musical future may have looked like.<\/p>\n<p>  Chris Bell remains an artist whose career was cut all too short. <em>I Am The Cosmos <\/em>is a look at his defining moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":33273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[10045],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-45083","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-chris-bell","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45083","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=45083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45083"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45083"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}