{"id":20847,"date":"2021-04-09T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=20847"},"modified":"2021-03-30T15:40:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T22:40:18","slug":"new-music-revue-glenn-donaldson-offers-hit-and-miss-coming-of-age-soundtrack-with-new-the-reds-pinks-purples-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2021\/04\/09\/new-music-revue-glenn-donaldson-offers-hit-and-miss-coming-of-age-soundtrack-with-new-the-reds-pinks-purples-album\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: Glenn Donaldson offers hit-and-miss coming-of-age soundtrack with new The Reds, Pinks &#038; Purples album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/slr257_full.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20848\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/slr257_full-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/slr257_full-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/slr257_full.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/slr257_full-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">The Reds, Pinks &amp; Purples<br \/>\n<\/span><i><span lang=\"EN\">Uncommon Weather<br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN\">(Slumberland Records<\/span><span lang=\"EN\">)<br \/>\n<\/span>2.5\/5<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><i><span lang=\"EN\">Uncommon Weather<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN\"> is <\/span><span lang=\"EN\">the third album from San Franscisco-based solo indie\/pop artist Glenn Donaldson, and <\/span><span lang=\"EN\">is meant to be a portrait of San Francisco. Donaldson\u2019s path to this release has several threads of inspiration, the most important of which is the artistic heritage of his musical predecessors.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">Preceding the release of <i>Uncommon Weather <\/i>was the Reds, Pinks &amp; Purples\u2019 second album, <i>You Might Be Happy Someday<\/i>. Like that one, Donaldson self-recorded his new album.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">If you\u2019re looking for something that makes you feel like the protagonist in a coming-of-age movie, this is the soundtrack for you. The mellow beats would perfectly line up with a montage of different summer activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"normal\"><i><span lang=\"EN\">Uncommon Weather<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN\"> has 13 songs that all have a very breezy walking-through-a-grass-field vibe. The easy listening of these songs is great for a long road trip or a late-night drive. That said, the songs do sound very similar and tend to blend together.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Reds, Pinks &amp; Purples Uncommon Weather (Slumberland Records) 2.5\/5 Uncommon Weather is the third album from San Franscisco-based solo indie\/pop artist Glenn Donaldson, and is meant to be a portrait of San Francisco. Donaldson\u2019s path to this release has several threads of inspiration, the most important of which is the artistic heritage of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20848,"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":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20847","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=20847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20850,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20847\/revisions\/20850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}