{"id":46164,"date":"2021-06-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/blood\/"},"modified":"2021-06-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T00:00:00","slug":"blood","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">On her 18th<sup> <\/sup>(!!!) album, Juliana Hatfield returns with ten new songs clocking in at just over 34 minutes long. The album is the latest in a long line of DIY projects. This sees her hooking up with Jed Davis and creating a 2021 style of her classic indie rock. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">Opening track, \u201cThe Shame Of Love\u201d is long and rambling and doesn\u2019t really go anywhere. It\u2019s a disappointing way to kick things off. \u201cGorgon\u201d is a good enough track that lifts above mediocrity, but the cynicism of the \u201890s really kicks in on \u201cNightmary,\u201d which is one of the worst tracks here. It feels like a bored writer just getting out their dislikes about life with younger people and it\u2019s like, please move on and do something more exciting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">This album is bland and dull; that\u2019s all there is to it. Hatfield been at this for over 35 years and while she hasn\u2019t run out of ideas lyrically, musically it is another story. There\u2019s barely anything here to separate tracks from one another. What\u2019s the main difference between \u201cSplinter\u201d and \u201cSuck It Up?\u201d Answer is: I haven\u2019t a clue. The lame New Wave drum machines really don\u2019t help efforts as they tend to overwhelm the rest of the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">This is incredibly boring and makes me want to listen to \u201cUniversal Heart Beat\u201d again because that is a much better song than most of what\u2019s here. Closing track \u201cTorture\u201d is the closest thing to something that I actually sort of latched onto. It bears the most resemblance to the music of her past.<\/p>\n<p>    Back in the day, Hatfield was capable of much better than this and this kind of feels like she\u2019s phoning it in on certain tracks, which is always sad to hear. Do yourself something better and go listen to some old Blake Babies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":34330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7595],"rating":[11205],"class_list":["post-46164","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-juliana-hatfield","rating-rating-d-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46164","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=46164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46164"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}