{"id":1469,"date":"2019-11-12T13:05:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T19:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2019-11-12T13:05:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T19:05:48","slug":"the-cold-stares-drop-new-lp-review-by-mobangeles-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/?p=1469","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Cold Stares drop new LP&#8221; Review by Mobangeles.com"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> Any Way the Wind Blows\u201d opens The Cold Stares\u2019 latest release\u00a0<em>Ways<\/em>\u00a0with a swaggering blast of laser focused quasi-Zeppelin riffing. Chris Tapp\u2019s superb guitar work might benefit from a little additional production heft, but it nonetheless possesses an inexorable steamroller like quality flattening listeners from the outset and highlighting the duo\u2019s tight compositional discipline. Tapp never risks self-indulgence; there are no masturbatory solos or instrumental breaks. He does pepper his playing with tasty tempo shifts however. Some listeners will wish the production dialed back Mullins\u2019 drum sound some, but few if any will find fault with his playing. It gives the track a satisfying muscular swing. <\/p><cite>Read more here &#8211;> <a href=\"https:\/\/mobangeles.com\/the-cold-stares-drop-new-lp\/\">Review by Michael Rand &#8211; Mobangeles.com <\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/WAYS_FULL_Cover-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"WAYS by The Cold Stares\" class=\"wp-image-1402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/WAYS_FULL_Cover-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/WAYS_FULL_Cover-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/WAYS_FULL_Cover-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/WAYS_FULL_Cover-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/WAYS_FULL_Cover.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any Way the Wind Blows\u201d opens The Cold Stares\u2019 latest release\u00a0Ways\u00a0with a swaggering blast of laser focused quasi-Zeppelin riffing. Chris Tapp\u2019s superb guitar work might benefit from a little additional production heft, but it nonetheless possesses an inexorable steamroller like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/?p=1469\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[108,506,505,97,113,69,507,239],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-losangeles","tag-michaelrand","tag-mobangeles","tag-newalbum","tag-newlp","tag-thecoldstares","tag-viperroom","tag-ways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}