{"id":45115,"date":"2017-10-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/angels-hear\/"},"modified":"2017-10-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T00:00:00","slug":"angels-hear","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/angels-hear\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels Hear"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are supergroups and then there are sort-of supergroups. John Cowsill of the 1960s pop group the Cowsills, Vicki Peterson of the Bangles, and Bill Mumy (producer, singer, and child actor of Lost In Space<\/em>)<\/em> have combined their talents to produce the album Angels Hear <\/em>by their newly formed group,\u00a0Action Skulls.<\/p>\n

While the music is modern sounding, in many ways, it contains a retro approach that harkens back to the 1970s California and West Coast sound. They basically produce shiny pop music that travels in a number of directions. There\u00a0is the\u00a0uptempo toe-tapper \u201cThe Luckiest Man Alive,\u201d the maudlin \u201cI\u2019ll See You In Another World,\u201d the acoustic \u201cMap Of The World,\u201d and the bluesy \u201cFeed My Hungry Heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

The harmonies are not only well-crafted but interesting. Their voices are very different, but they blend together well. Whether the\u00a0style is laidback or energetic, the harmonies \u2013 which can be subtle or soaring \u2013remain the foundation of their sound.<\/p>\n

\u201cFeed My Hungry Heart\u201d is representative of their approach. Each member of the group takes a turn singing lead and they all come together to harmonize on the chorus. <\/p>\n

Angels\u00a0Hear<\/em>\u00a0was about four years in the making. Eight songs had been recorded when original member, bassist Rick Rosas, passed away. That loss and the other members\u2019 own schedules put everything on hold for several years. Whether the Action Skulls ever records another album remains to be seen. But Angels Hear <\/em>is an excellent disc of well-crafted pop that proves musicians from different backgrounds can create very listenable music together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":33304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[10080],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-45115","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-action-skulls","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45115","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=45115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45115"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45115"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}