{"id":2098,"date":"2015-10-31T15:31:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T21:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2015-10-30T13:40:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T19:40:44","slug":"kneel-tales-from-the-secret-garden-of-cobwebs-and-grapevine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/kneel-tales-from-the-secret-garden-of-cobwebs-and-grapevine\/","title":{"rendered":"Kneel &#8211; Tales from the Secret Garden of Cobwebs and Grapevine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2099\" src=\"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2015\/10\/Kneel.jpg\" alt=\"Kneel\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2015\/10\/Kneel.jpg 300w, https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2015\/10\/Kneel-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I guess this is the season for surprising side-projects by Thumper Punk Records punk bands. This EP finds\u00a0Neil Roddy from Ambassadors of Shalom veering decidedly into alt-rock territory for\u00a0MMLJ Records. Most of the songs here take a serious, somber tone due to Roddy dealing with some heavy blows that life has recently dealt him. I can&#8217;t find much online to see if this is band or one-person side project, but the sound is not acoustic folk. This is full band alt-rock that reminds me of Glower at times because of how well it blends 80s and 90s alternative sounds together. Something for those looking for a new and different band to check out.<\/p>\n[2015 MMLJ Records | Purchase:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mmljrecords.bandcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\">mmljrecords.bandcamp.com<\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess this is the season for surprising side-projects by Thumper Punk Records punk bands. This EP finds\u00a0Neil Roddy from Ambassadors of Shalom veering decidedly into alt-rock territory for\u00a0MMLJ Records. Most of the songs here take a serious, somber tone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/kneel-tales-from-the-secret-garden-of-cobwebs-and-grapevine\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24,429],"tags":[436,437],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-review","category-september-2016","tag-kneel","tag-mmlj-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098","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=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}