{"id":9644,"date":"2014-09-30T11:49:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T18:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=9644"},"modified":"2014-10-01T07:30:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T14:30:08","slug":"new-music-revue-counting-crows-find-themselves-with-somewhere-under-wonderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2014\/09\/30\/new-music-revue-counting-crows-find-themselves-with-somewhere-under-wonderland\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Revue<\/em>: Counting Crows find themselves with Somewhere Under Wonderland<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Counting Crows
\nSomewhere Under Wonderland
\n<\/i>(Capitol Records)
\n4\/5<\/p>\n

For their sixth studio album, pure American rockers Counting Crows have taken a step back, with fantastic results. Their last album was back in 2008, after all; they\u2019ve had time to rethink what makes them great, and here they deliver with astonishing results from the second the album begins.<\/p>\n

Indeed, opening track \u201cPalisades Park\u201d is a phenomenal journey through everything that makes the Crows so special: an evocative, moody, trumpet-led intro takes its time before the song itself, a sprawling, lyric-led journey, begins. It ebbs and flows and, man, the band hasn\u2019t sounded this much like themselves in a long time.<\/p>\n

The only downside is the rest of the album doesn\u2019t match up to the opening track, but there are gems to be found. \u201cGod of Ocean Tides\u201d is a gorgeous acoustic number, while straight-up rockers like \u201cEarthquake Driver\u201d are simple, no-nonsense, and catchy.<\/p>\n

Rock and roll is alive and well all over this moving and fun album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Counting Crows Somewhere Under Wonderland (Capitol Records) 4\/5 For their sixth studio album, pure American rockers Counting Crows have taken a step back, with fantastic results. Their last album was back in 2008, after all; they\u2019ve had time to rethink what makes them great, and here they deliver with astonishing results from the second the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9645,"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":[4,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-october-1-2014"],"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