{"id":60,"date":"2020-08-05T18:43:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T17:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguitar.rocks\/?p=60"},"modified":"2020-08-05T18:43:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T17:43:28","slug":"bbc-music-review-of-the-band-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"BBC &#8211; Music &#8211; Review of The Band Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Currently wowing the country charts in their native USA, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/music\/artists\/28955336-2348-488a-9381-e3a7b0107343\">The Band Perry<\/a>\u2019s eponymous debut album offers 11 highly polished songs. Fronted by the strident, assertive vocals of Kimberly Perry, they proffer bright and breezy fare that\u2019s the usual lyrical recipe of meetin\u2019 \u2018n\u2019 cheatin\u2019, percolated throughout with fizzy bubbles of crossover pop.<\/p>\n<p>With Kimberly still shy of 30, she\u2019s nevertheless the oldest in this family troupe that\u2019s been working the stateside country circuit since 2005. Along with her younger brothers Reid and Neil (handling mandolin, bass and backing vocals), their short career hasn\u2019t stopped the family mantelpiece bowing alarmingly under the weight of the numerous awards and accolades to have been thrown their way.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst there\u2019s no faulting the tightly-drilled performances turned in by the trio and an array of skilled sessioneers, the delivery has a by-the-numbers feel that\u2019s workman-like rather than inspired. Perhaps the fault lies with a set of committee-written tunes that are well-worn and overly-familiar. If I Die Young ponders a life cut short, though not before the heroine has had time to listen to Taylor Dane\u2019s Tell It to My Heart prior to her untimely demise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s not always fair to isolate lyrics, clumsily trite observations such as \u201cLike a girl wants her chocolate \/ Yeah I know that I\u2019ll miss you\u201d and \u201cAs far as I can run \/ To where freedom\u2019s free\u201d leap out, alongside many other examples of hackneyed wordplay. This sort of blandness becomes difficult to ignore and, it must be said, forgive.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, such churlish reservations will not affect the The Band Perry\u2019s radio-friendly momentum. One can only hope the raw talent that exists beneath the glitzy lacquer of this debut will mature and emerge with a more distinctive and original voice on its second album.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/music\/reviews\/bm9p\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently wowing the country charts in their native USA, The Band Perry\u2019s eponymous debut album offers 11 highly polished songs. Fronted by the strident, assertive vocals of Kimberly Perry, they proffer bright and breezy fare that\u2019s the usual lyrical recipe of meetin\u2019 \u2018n\u2019 cheatin\u2019, percolated throughout with fizzy bubbles of crossover pop. With Kimberly still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[212,119,103,213,120],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-band","tag-bbc","tag-music","tag-perry","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}