{"id":1653,"date":"2013-06-20T14:06:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T20:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2013-06-20T14:06:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T20:06:26","slug":"a-common-goal-blessings-and-battles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/a-common-goal-blessings-and-battles\/","title":{"rendered":"A Common Goal &#8211; Blessings and Battles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2013\/06\/A-Common-Goal-Blessings-and-Battles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1654\" alt=\"A Common Goal - Blessings and Battles\" src=\"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2013\/06\/A-Common-Goal-Blessings-and-Battles-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2013\/06\/A-Common-Goal-Blessings-and-Battles-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2013\/06\/A-Common-Goal-Blessings-and-Battles-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2013\/06\/A-Common-Goal-Blessings-and-Battles.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>If you heard the first EP by A Common Goal and liked it, then you know what to expect here: blue collar punk rock with rough vocals and a clear lyrical message. The band has dug a bit deeper into that sound for their new full length, spreading out a bit more but not to the point of shying away from what fans will want. There seems to be a bit more \u201ccatch\u201d to the hooks in these songs, giving the album a bit higher \u201crock-out\u201d effect over all. Or maybe it is the shout-along background vocals that cause that\u2026 or maybe both. There are also a couple of songs where the band slows things down a bit \u2013 not exactly ballads, but just a bit more melody and introspection. For fans of the rougher sides of punk, this is a full length album to snap up quick.<\/p>\n[2013 Thumper Punk Records | Purchase: <a href=\"http:\/\/thumperpunkrecords.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">thumperpunkrecords.bandcamp.com<\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you heard the first EP by A Common Goal and liked it, then you know what to expect here: blue collar punk rock with rough vocals and a clear lyrical message. The band has dug a bit deeper into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/a-common-goal-blessings-and-battles\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24,331],"tags":[322,232],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-review","category-september-2013","tag-a-common-goal","tag-thumper-punk-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1655,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/1655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}