{"id":944,"date":"2004-08-01T01:44:21","date_gmt":"2004-08-01T01:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=944"},"modified":"2020-08-21T18:29:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T18:29:35","slug":"frameshift-unweaving-the-rainbow-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2004\/08\/01\/frameshift-unweaving-the-rainbow-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Frameshift, &#8220;Unweaving the Rainbow&#8221; (2003)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/2003_frameshift.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.progrockrecords.com\/artists\/view.php?id=19\"><\/a>James LaBrie is the Celine Dion of progressive rock. Not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that! I have a secret confession to make. I like a lot of the songs that Celine Dion chooses to sing. Given the right material, she can knock it out of the park without even trying. But quite often, she over-emotes or affects her delivery, accentuating in a way that, quite frankly, ruin the whole thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The material written by Henning Pauly on Frameshift&#8217;s debut is strong enough that James knocks it out of the park, even if the first few stanzas of the first track got me wondering whether he was going to &#8220;pull a Celine&#8221; and over-emote. J la B is best when he cranks up the volume and lays off the vibrato, and fortunately there is plenty of that here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This album was much, much better than I thought it was going to be when I read the blurb. At one point they liken it to Queen, and yes, there is one track at least where that is not hyperbole. Recommended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grade: A- (a point off for the odd vocal affect)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James LaBrie is the Celine Dion of progressive rock. Not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that! I have a secret confession to make. I like a lot of the songs that Celine Dion chooses to sing. Given the right material, she can knock it out of the park without even trying. But quite often, she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}