{"id":9718,"date":"2014-02-27T06:12:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/uncategorized\/simon-says\/"},"modified":"2014-02-27T06:12:25","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:12:25","slug":"simon-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/music\/simon-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Simon Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sim.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22318\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sim.jpg\" alt=\"sim\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nSimon Says<br \/>\n&#8220;\u0093Shut Your Breath\u0094&#8221;<br \/>\n(Hollywood Records)<\/h4>\n<p>Vocalist, Matt Franks, deserves major recognition for his amazing voice with a pitch that goes from a mind-blowing scream, to a soothing whisper, all while sounding so clean it\u0092s almost eerie. \u00a0Although Simon Says have played with bands like Limp Bizkit, Staind and Filter, it\u0092s safe to say they can stand their own ground when it comes to the way this album hits, almost like an earthquake. \u00a0This being their second release, it\u0092s noted that the band has been working on pulling things together so they come out sounding ten times harder. \u00a0With songs like \u0093Hey You,\u0094 and its insane screaming intro and \u0093Silk Mouth\u0094 with hard hittin\u0092 guitars and the voice of anger, then moving on to songs like \u0093Canvas\u0094 with the simple whisper message of \u0093fuck you,\u0094 even the mellower songs on this album carry on the hardcore theme. \u00a0\u0093Shut Your Breath\u0094 is absolutely amazing from beginning to end. \u00a0Expect nothing less from this hardcore, focused band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Says &#8220;\u0093Shut Your Breath\u0094&#8221; (Hollywood Records) Vocalist, Matt Franks, deserves major recognition for his amazing voice with a pitch that goes from a mind-blowing scream, to a soothing whisper, all while sounding so clean it\u0092s almost eerie. \u00a0Although Simon Says have played with bands like Limp Bizkit, Staind and Filter, it\u0092s safe to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[3252,3590,6494],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9718"}],"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=9718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}