{"id":2340,"date":"2018-08-14T09:22:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T14:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2018-08-14T09:30:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T14:30:54","slug":"kelly-jay-roberts-alive-and-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/kelly-jay-roberts-alive-and-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Jay Roberts – Alive and Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"We received a request to review this album months ago… but got a bit distracted by life. I really enjoyed the album, so I am trying to get the word out now. If you have been itching for some new industrial rock\/metal, Roberts might be just the right fit for you. His sound has a bit more of a modern edge to it than your typical industrial\/metal album from back in the 90s. For me, that is a good thing: modern rock music as a sound isn\u2019t bad \u2013 it\u2019s just usually so poorly played too often. For 90\u2019s purists that might be a problem \u2013 but maybe its time to expand your horizons, eh? Roberts plays everything himself, but does a really good job of keeping it interesting. I could see this album fitting in with the FixT label \u2013 there are certainly many of the same aspects that makes Celldweller successful. For this type of music, there is definitely a sweet spot that has the right mix of heavy guitars and electronica. Many miss that spot, but Roberts nails it. Part of the reason I am behind on reviewing this is that the BandCamp page describes the lyrics as \u201cfilm noir inspired\u201d and \u201csci fi epic,\u201d so I wanted to dig into them more. Obviously I haven\u2019t, but from what I hear as I listened a few times (and a few quick scans of the lyrics posted on BandCamp), I would agree with that assessment. I believe this is only available digitally \u2013 but it seems to be at most of the regular online music spots, so give it a listen and throw some support to a newer artist keeping the electronic rock scene alive.<\/p>\n[2018 Independent | Purchase:\u00a0kellyjayroberts.bandcamp.com<\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We received a request to review this album months ago… but got a bit distracted by life. I really enjoyed the album, so I am trying to get the word out now. If you have been itching for some new … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24,484],"tags":[489],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-review","category-october-2018","tag-kelly-jay-roberts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","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=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2342,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions\/2342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}