{"id":96928,"date":"2020-07-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=96928"},"modified":"2021-02-12T23:13:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T04:13:24","slug":"audio-review-lianne-la-havas-album-lianne-la-havas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=96928","title":{"rendered":"audio review : Lianne La Havas ( album ) &#8230; Lianne La Havas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/posts\/96928.jpg\" alt=\"audio review : Lianne La Havas ( album ) ... Lianne La Havas\" style=\"height:200px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bittersweet, one of the best songs on this album, would&#8217;ve made the most fitting title for it, but any of these song titles would&#8217;ve been better than Lianne La Havas. That it&#8217;s confusing as to whether I&#8217;m referring to the artist or the album is a testament to why self-titled projects are almost always an awful idea, especially when it&#8217;s not even a debut.<\/p>\n<p>This is her third full-length set and she&#8217;s still singing mostly about &#8220;love&#8221; to 1970s-style soul grooves. Those funky\/lush soundscapes remain the best thing about her music. The singing; not her voice, which is husky yet soothing, but her melodies; is usually trailing behind. Read My Mind is a joy to listen to though, along with Paper Thin and <a href=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=104640\" title=\"audio review : Courage ( song ) ... Lianne La Havas\">Courage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>my rating : 3 of 5<\/p>\n<p>2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bittersweet, one of the best songs on this album, would&#8217;ve made the most fitting title for it, but any of these song titles would&#8217;ve been better than Lianne La Havas. That it&#8217;s confusing as to whether I&#8217;m referring to the artist or the album is a testament to why self-titled projects are almost always an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=96928\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">audio review : Lianne La Havas ( album ) &#8230; Lianne La Havas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9761],"tags":[241,90,102],"class_list":["post-96928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-reviews-with-a-3-of-5-rating","tag-lianne-la-havas","tag-religion","tag-romance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96928"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104643,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96928\/revisions\/104643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}