{"id":50344,"date":"2016-09-30T13:16:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T18:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=50344"},"modified":"2016-09-30T13:16:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T18:16:39","slug":"heaters-baptistina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2016\/09\/30\/heaters-baptistina\/","title":{"rendered":"Heaters: Baptistina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium alignright wp-image-50345\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/baptistina.jpg?fit=300%2C300\" alt=\"baptistina\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/baptistina.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/baptistina-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/baptistina-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In keeping with their town\u2019s namesake, Heaters, a 3 piece from Grand Rapids, Michigan will take you on some sort of 46 minute, ethereal, effortless, white-water-rafting-esque trip. Their second album release of 2016, Baptistina, is the perfect mixture of fuzz and bass.<br \/>\nAnchored by heavy bass lines and steady percussion, the album comes alive with catchy reverb-filled guitar melodies and vocals that seem to float on top. Every track on the album commands and deserves your attention, each with a very dynamic progression of sounds. The first track, \u201cCentennial\u201d sets up the album, with over a minute of pure instrumental psych-rock as an intro before sneaking in the vocals, which move in and out of the song between extensive jamming. A better taste of the ethereal vocal style comes in for the intro of the second track, \u201cAra Pacis.\u201d Though a majority of the lyrics are unintelligible for the same reasons, the vocals mix grit and psychedelia in a drawn out and light style, seeming to float on top of the rhythm alongside the guitar. The sound drifts towards the more haunting side of psych rock for track number six, \u201cDali.\u201d Opened with distorted percussion, followed by a bass line so catchy it\u2019ll spook you and some looming, distorted vocals, the track continues and repeats the most haunting lyrics of the album \u2013 and maybe the only audible ones \u2013 \u201cI\u2019m looking for something better; I don\u2019t wanna waste my time.\u201d The next track, \u201cMango,\u201d turns the tone around completely and displays the light-hearted side of psych-rock, with fast, up-beat themes. The ninth track, \u201cTurkish Gold,\u201d is an entirely instrumental, sweet, 2-minute Haze. The album is then wrapped up with \u201cSea Foam,\u201d and really solidifies the floating sensation with a bubbly combination of sounds that repeatedly morphs between fast hooks and slow break-downs.<br \/>\nHeaters should definitely be on any psych-rock fan\u2019s radar. Give Baptistina a listen and pick some tracks to play at your Halloween party.<br \/>\n<b><br \/>\nRecommended If You Like: Psychic Heat, The Ohsees, Ty Segall<br \/>\nRecommended Tracks: 1 (Centennial), 2 (Ara Pacis), 6 (Dali)<br \/>\nDo Not Play: album is clean<br \/>\nWritten by Nadine Alzubbi on 09\/29\/2016 <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psych-rock trio Heaters&#8217; second album release is heavy on the bass and catchy on the riffs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15733,"featured_media":50345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[5592,5590,5591,5593,5212],"class_list":["post-50344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rock-rotation","tag-baptistina","tag-heaters","tag-nadine","tag-nadine-alzubbi","tag-psych-rock"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/baptistina.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}