{"id":9761,"date":"2014-10-17T10:46:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T17:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=9761"},"modified":"2014-10-23T12:06:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T19:06:18","slug":"new-music-revue-exit-verses-debut-proves-life-after-karate-is-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2014\/10\/17\/new-music-revue-exit-verses-debut-proves-life-after-karate-is-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Revue<\/em>: Exit Verse’s debut proves life after Karate is possible"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Exit Verse
\nExit Verse
\n<\/i>(Ernest Jenning Record Co.)
\n4\/5<\/p>\n

Geoff Farina is truly one of the great musical minds of our time. He\u2019s one of a kind: his work in indie-emo pioneers Karate flirted with jazz way before anyone else did\u2026 well, no one else ever really did. His solo material, his work with Secret Stars, Glorytellers\u2026 it all adds up to an amazing discography rich with reward, well worth spending time with. Trust me, I\u2019ve spent decades with it already and look forward to a life exploring the man\u2019s music.<\/p>\n

Having said that, the debut from his new project, Exit Verse is, predictably, excellent. But fans of Karate\u2019s later material will be surprised: there are no extended guitar jazz solos here; instead, the songs rock streamlined and smooth, concise and upbeat. The tunes themselves definitely evoke the classic rock of Thin Lizzy, but the delivery is much more laidback and less aggressive: this is the kind of thing that you\u2019d hear old guys jamming down at the jazz club.<\/p>\n

Except, it doesn\u2019t suck. It rules. And, unlike almost every other musician who says this, Farina\u2019s work truly is genreless. Exit Verse<\/em> is simply the latest example of that, this album containing great song after great song, the grooves smooth, the beat impossible to ignore. You won\u2019t hear a better indie album this year (check out the stunningly great tunes “Pull out the Nails” and “Seeds” for proof of that), even if this barely sounds like the indie you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exit Verse Exit Verse (Ernest Jenning Record Co.) 4\/5 Geoff Farina is truly one of the great musical minds of our time. He\u2019s one of a kind: his work in indie-emo pioneers Karate flirted with jazz way before anyone else did\u2026 well, no one else ever really did. His solo material, his work with Secret […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9762,"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-9761","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\/9761","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=9761"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9767,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9761\/revisions\/9767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}