{"id":228,"date":"2013-07-18T23:33:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T06:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2013-07-18T23:33:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T06:33:08","slug":"minty-rosa-pretty-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/minty-rosa-pretty-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Minty Rosa, Pretty Please"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"791\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 350px; height: 791px;\" src=\"\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/album=67210045\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<p>Once it starts it never stops. The album is driving. No dead spots. There are very few perfect albums \u2013 albums like the first Ramones record, NoMeansNo\u2019s Wrong, Rikk Agnew\u2019s All by Myself \u2013 albums that inspire a desire to listen over and over again. Pretty Please by Minty Rosa is such an album. The voice is melodic and strong, punctuated with feeling. The music is punchy and heavy. An irresistible mixture of driving hard rhythm and melody, and at times slow and bluesy, the album manages to sound simultaneously vintage and modern. This is the second release from the band and the first full album. The production value is very high, the sound clear and powerful. The members of Minty Rosa have been playing for years in various bands in the northwest music scene and the experience shows clearly on this release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once it starts it never stops. The album is driving. No dead spots. There are very few perfect albums \u2013 albums like the first Ramones record, NoMeansNo\u2019s Wrong, Rikk Agnew\u2019s All by Myself \u2013 albums that inspire a desire to listen over and over again. Pretty Please by Minty Rosa is such an album. The voice is melodic and strong, punctuated with feeling. The music is punchy and heavy. An irresistible mixture of driving hard rhythm and melody, and at times slow and bluesy, the album manages to sound simultaneously vintage and modern. This is the second release from the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,11,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-music","category-review","category-things-my-friends-made"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u13S-3G","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1064,"url":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/record-albums-analog-and-digital\/","url_meta":{"origin":228,"position":0},"title":"The ghosts of vinyl past and digital presents","author":"David Raffin","date":"June 23, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"In the old days I would frequent record shops and select albums by their covers. 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