{"id":317,"date":"2012-03-04T05:06:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T13:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/?p=317"},"modified":"2012-03-04T05:06:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T13:06:06","slug":"reviewleonanaess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/music\/reviewleonanaess\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Leona Naess"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/leona.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28140\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/leona.jpg\" alt=\"leona\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/leona.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/leona-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLeona Naess<br \/>\n&#8220;Comatised&#8221;<br \/>\n(MCA Records)<\/h4>\n<p>It\u2019s so soft and pretty, I can hardly keep the rainy Sunday shivers away as I listen calmly. The album begins with a warm hum of a track called, \u201cLazy Days\u201d that is mostly a shuffling cymbal, a kids keyboard and Leona Naess proclaiming, \u201cWide eyed and stupid, I\u2019m waiting for the arrows of cupid (your love)\u201d. Endearing and put together with a subtle charm. Now, why she couldn\u2019t keep this mentality throughout this disk is a pity.<\/p>\n<p>What starts out as your not-so-typical girl songwriter type endeavor, rapidly degenerates into a very typical girl songwriter rehash. Leona undoubtedly has a notable command of wrapping tempo into her flow like the head wagging, \u201cCharm Attack\u201d which makes this sugar pop (\u201cI\u2019m no savior but I tried to save you\u201d) so much better than the countless number of these \u201cgirl and my guitar\u201d type bands in coffee shops across the USA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChase\u201d offers a typical girl dilemma \u201cWhy do I always chase the ones that run\u201d and the verses have a minimal pullback drum track running solo that she slaps the sassy words over. But these clever lyrics are soon put to waste as the disk plays out, it seems Leona ran out of original ideas and was content to give her Lilith fair inspired repertoire the bulk of the work on the later part of the disk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLonely Boy\u201d starts out the cheese and even Leona\u2019s voice on this track is out of sorts from the rest here and with the strings\/slide guitar adding the dramatic element behind the lone acoustic guitar, it saps out some more, even though the idea might\u2019ve been on track to start with.<\/p>\n<p>When she gets creative, it&#8217;s something worth listening to but the standard fare that dominates this disk makes it hardly worth the while.<\/p>\n<p>(2000 MCA Records)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leona Naess &#8220;Comatised&#8221; (MCA Records) It\u2019s so soft and pretty, I can hardly keep the rainy Sunday shivers away as I listen calmly. The album begins with a warm hum of a track called, \u201cLazy Days\u201d that is mostly a shuffling cymbal, a kids keyboard and Leona Naess proclaiming, \u201cWide eyed and stupid, I\u2019m waiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[1342,3599,4206,4605],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}