{"id":12312,"date":"2016-08-10T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=12312"},"modified":"2016-08-05T15:51:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T22:51:29","slug":"new-music-revue-la-chinga-freewheels-to-rock-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2016\/08\/10\/new-music-revue-la-chinga-freewheels-to-rock-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: La Chinga freewheels to rock excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/a4136171692_10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12313 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/a4136171692_10-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/a4136171692_10-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/a4136171692_10-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/a4136171692_10-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/a4136171692_10-110x110.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/a4136171692_10-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/a4136171692_10-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/a4136171692_10.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>La Chinga<br \/>\n<i>Freewheelin\u2019<br \/>\n<\/i>(Small Stone Recordings)<br \/>\n4\/5<\/p>\n<p>La Chinga is a hard-rock trio from Vancouver, and their music has psychedelic power. Fans of classic rock bands will agree that their new album, <i>Freewheelin\u2019<\/i>, is a success, for a couple of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, its theme and songs are cohesive, making for a great listening experience. When I spin the album, I feel like I\u2019m driving a car down on a prairie highway. All of the songs on the album are played with an undeniable passion.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, the music has a very strong rhythm, and one that fits in nicely with the album\u2019s theme: listening to it, I associate it with the sound of an engine. The songs create images of roarin\u2019 old cars running down a wide road.<\/p>\n<p>However, I cannot give it a full five out of five. When I listen to the album for a long time, my spirit feels nervous, and my brain feels very tired. But this isn\u2019t specific to La Chinga; it\u2019s a common problem with hard rock. I hope that La Chinga can find a suitable balance between passion and softness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Chinga Freewheelin\u2019 (Small Stone Recordings) 4\/5 La Chinga is a hard-rock trio from Vancouver, and their music has psychedelic power. Fans of classic rock bands will agree that their new album, Freewheelin\u2019, is a success, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, its theme and songs are cohesive, making for a great listening experience. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12313,"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":[4,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-august-10-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12314,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12312\/revisions\/12314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}