{"id":11932,"date":"2016-03-30T06:25:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T13:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=11932"},"modified":"2016-03-29T10:27:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T17:27:34","slug":"new-music-revue-megan-bonnell-shows-potential-on-magnolia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2016\/03\/30\/new-music-revue-megan-bonnell-shows-potential-on-magnolia\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Revue<\/em>: Megan Bonnell shows potential on Magnolia<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Magnolia\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Megan Bonnell
\nMagnolia
\n<\/i>(MapleMusic Recordings)
\n3\/5<\/p>\n

Megan Bonnell\u2019s Magnolia<\/i> wavers between country folk and hipster pop. And while there isn\u2019t anything particularly unpleasant about the album, most of the songs fail to identify themselves among the overwhelming avalanche of new music these days.<\/p>\n

Bonnell clearly has talent, and there is a large amount of potential; she just needs to differentiate her sound a bit more.<\/p>\n

With that said, a few of the songs on the album are enjoyable. The jocose \u201cThe Wind\u201d <\/i>feels light and relieving; \u201cBroken Hearted Avenue\u201d does what it promises and plucks at the soul strings with its mellow, sad sound; \u201cChameleon\u201d provides a good balance of loud and powerful with soft and gentle.<\/p>\n

In a few of the songs you can hear something along the lines of a twangy Regina Spektor; in others you receive just a hint of the raw power of Florence Welch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Megan Bonnell Magnolia (MapleMusic Recordings) 3\/5 Megan Bonnell\u2019s Magnolia wavers between country folk and hipster pop. And while there isn\u2019t anything particularly unpleasant about the album, most of the songs fail to identify themselves among the overwhelming avalanche of new music these days. Bonnell clearly has talent, and there is a large amount of potential; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-march-30-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t