{"id":193,"date":"2016-06-25T17:04:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T17:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/?p=193"},"modified":"2024-01-01T23:19:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T23:19:33","slug":"ginger-wildheart-year-of-the-fanclub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Ginger Wildheart &#8211; Year Of The Fanclub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This review was published in the April 2016 issue of Classic Rock magazine, no. 221<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Out of 60 songs created between 2014\/15, Ginger Wildheart has cherry-picked his favourite 12.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s chosen wisely. From the introductory beat of <em>Down the Dip<\/em> to the harmonious collaboration with Courtney Love on <em>Honour<\/em>, Year Of The Fanclub has you hooked from the off. With only a small sniff of Wildhearts influence, the record is a hotbed of diversity. Also the perfect platform for Ginger\u2019s renowned lyrical skills, <em>The Pendine Incident<\/em> is a folky onslaught of life advice, whilst a more cynical side of his songwriting is brought out in the exceedingly catchy <em>Toxins and Tea. <\/em>The gentle acoustic tracks are booted aside by hard-rock riffs, \u00e0 la <em>Ostracide<\/em>. The whole album packs a punch, with choruses that will be glued to your auditory cortex for days, and obviously, a beat that won\u2019t quit.<\/p>\n<p>9\/10<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This review was published in the April 2016 issue of Classic Rock magazine, no. 221 &#8211; Out of 60 songs created between 2014\/15, Ginger Wildheart has cherry-picked his favourite 12. He\u2019s chosen wisely. From the introductory beat of Down the Dip to the harmonious collaboration with Courtney Love on Honour, Year Of The Fanclub has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/?p=193\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ginger Wildheart &#8211; Year Of The Fanclub<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}