{"id":7205,"date":"2018-02-23T16:16:17","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T00:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=7205"},"modified":"2018-02-23T16:16:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T00:16:17","slug":"review-loner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/review-loner\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: \u201cLONER\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Zo<\/span>\u00eb<\/span> Strickland | Editor-in-Chief<\/span><\/p>\n

Social commentary should be hidden by danceable beats. At least that\u2019s what Caroline Rose\u2019s newest album \u201cLONER\u201d leads me to believe. The artist\u2019s sophomore album is a far cry from the tracks she released four years ago, they’re brutally honest while being masked by a pleasant exterior. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLONER\u201d is harder than the moseying vibes put forth by Rose\u2019s first album, \u201cI Will Not Be Afraid.\u201d If her first album was reminiscent of an upbeat version of The Wild Reeds, her second is a hazy Sleater-Kinney or Bikini Kill. <\/span><\/p>\n

The first track on the album, \u201cMore of the Same Thing,\u201d sets the tone of \u201cLONER” to be dreamy and danceable. As the album progresses, the lighthearted nature of the first track shifts in a myriad of different directions. Somehow, Rose has created an album that, despite multitudes of different sounds, is blissfully cohesive. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMoney\u201d is one of my personal favorite songs on the album. Rose\u2019s lyrics are energetic and full of frenzy; the song is backed by loud synths that threaten to take over the track, but are no match for Rose\u2019s commanding voice.<\/span><\/p>\n

The energetic interlude comes to a pause with \u201cJeannie Becomes a Mom,\u201d which brings the album back to its dreamy base. The song cyclically repeats the phrase, \u201cnow you\u2019re in real life,\u201d creating a whirlwind of surreal dissolution. <\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout the album, the lyrics present an encompassing picture of Rose\u2019s commentary on the society. Towards the end of the album, a 49-second song introduction titled \u201cSmile! AKA Schizodrift Jam 1 AKA Bikini Intro\u201d is a near-minute of repeated male voices urging the listener to smile. What follows in the track \u201cBikini\u201d is a song of veiled misogynistic comments centering around the idea that success is related to dressing and acting the way people tell you to. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLONER\u201d is a catchy, intense album that\u2019s more than what it appears to be upon first listen. The album hits the airwaves on Feb. 23. <\/span><\/p>\n

Contact the author at journaleditor@wou.edu<\/span><\/p>\n

Photo by:\u00a0Carolinerosemusic.com<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zo\u00eb Strickland | Editor-in-Chief Social commentary should be hidden by danceable beats. At least that\u2019s what Caroline Rose\u2019s newest album \u201cLONER\u201d leads me to believe. The artist\u2019s sophomore album is a far cry from the tracks she released four years ago, they’re brutally honest while being masked by a pleasant exterior. \u201cLONER\u201d is harder than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}