{"id":55877,"date":"2017-02-22T11:47:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T17:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=55877"},"modified":"2017-02-22T11:47:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T17:47:51","slug":"strand-of-oaks-hard-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2017\/02\/22\/strand-of-oaks-hard-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Strand of Oaks: Hard Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium alignright wp-image-55878\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/doc117-digital-581x581.jpg?fit=300%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/doc117-digital-581x581.jpg 581w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/doc117-digital-581x581-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/doc117-digital-581x581-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/doc117-digital-581x581-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>This rock album pulls out all the stops; from ballad to jam, it has it all. There are plenty of good tracks to make a long drive seem cinematic. Taking cues from Ryan Adams and riffs off the epic stylings of J Mascis, Strand of Oaks blends it into what can only be described under Strand of Oaks. <em>Hard Love<\/em> brings back memories of high school and turning up the radio just to drown out the noise. \u201cHard Love\u201d and \u201cRadio Kids\u201d bring back that memory especially with a \u201cLuminol\u201d style that grows and grows out of the track and into your head. The album as a whole seems like a great revision of Ryan Adam\u2019s <em>Rock n Roll<\/em>. \u201cOn the Hill\u201d reminds the listener of a heavy, patient-listening <em>Joshua Tree<\/em> days. Overall, the album seems to take the best parts of rock from the past decade and compile into one nice package. Well done, Strand of Oaks.<br \/>\n<b><br \/>\nRecommended If You Like: Ryan Adams, Dinosaur Jr., Jay Bennette, Black Keys, U2, Toadies, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The National, Modest Mouse<br \/>\nRecommended Tracks: 1 (Hard Love), 4 (Salt Brothers), 5 (On the Hill), 8 (Rest of It)<br \/>\nDo Not Play: N\/a<br \/>\nWritten by TJ Duncan on 02\/21\/2017 <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This rock album pulls out all the stops, from ballad to jam it has it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18123,"featured_media":55878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3235,3230,181],"tags":[6815,6657,1283,6814,6727],"class_list":["post-55877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-music-reviews","category-new-music-rotation","category-rock-rotation","tag-drive-rock","tag-hard-love","tag-rock","tag-ryan-adamsdinosaur-jru2","tag-strand-of-oaks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/doc117-digital-581x581.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55877","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\/18123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}