{"id":4436,"date":"2022-03-11T10:08:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T10:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=4436"},"modified":"2022-03-11T21:26:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T21:26:36","slug":"single-review-328am-prime-panda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/11\/single-review-328am-prime-panda\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: &#8220;3:28am&#8221; &#8211; Prime Panda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was speaking to Neil March, fellow Fresh On The Net moderator about this band over lunch this weekend and he had only positive things to say about them\u2026. They have played his Vanishing Point gig, and he said they were amazing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is their new single, and it\u2019s stunning.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The overall production is stunning, taking in elements of funk, jazz, rock\u2026 I love the fact that the bass sounds warped &#8211; is it a synth bass, or is it plugged into a pedal?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll have to ask.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it is, it\u2019s just bang on for the moment, the drums keep everything held together leading the stabs, there\u2019s a tasty tom roll into the second verse at around 1:05, playing a very important part in the song in the way it\u2019s led.<\/p>\n<p>Now the vocals\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>What can I say about the vocals\u2026<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Oh they\u2019re gorgeous! I\u2019ve been a fan since back in the day, when I interviewed Prime Panda for my blog &#8211; I will always be a fan of Tess!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While we\u2019re talking about the personnel, here\u2019s the line up:<\/p>\n<p>Tess: Vocals\/Sax<\/p>\n<p>Shay: Guitar\/pedalboard<\/p>\n<p>Alex: Keys<\/p>\n<p>Michael: Drums<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tuur: Bass<\/p>\n<p>All very professional in their field!<\/p>\n<p>They are a five and a half piece from London (The half is very important), and they came together through a love of the weirder worlds of music, they\u2019ve played the BBC Introducing showcase, and they\u2019ve got a taste for bad puns one of which I love\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>How do you scare a panda?<\/p>\n<p>BamBOO!<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Embed: 3:28am\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/2LJpGjwjyaIDvVRFL8qDCn?si=817d47f6a8cf4652&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"744\" height=\"729\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_2019.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_2019.jpeg 744w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_2019-300x294.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_2019-61x60.jpeg 61w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was speaking to Neil March, fellow Fresh On The Net moderator about this band over lunch this weekend and he had only positive things to say about them\u2026. They have played his Vanishing Point gig, and he said they were amazing.&nbsp; This is their new single, and it\u2019s stunning.&nbsp; The overall production is stunning, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,118,181,129,52,139,31,170,143,30,153,187,150,175,183,162,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-band","category-bass","category-blues","category-drums","category-guitar","category-jazz","category-keyboards","category-live-gigs","category-london","category-music","category-percussion","category-saxophone","category-songwriter","category-soul","category-synthesizers","category-uk","category-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4439,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436\/revisions\/4439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}