{"id":4651,"date":"2022-05-24T05:29:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T05:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=4651"},"modified":"2022-06-03T06:57:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T06:57:22","slug":"single-review-new-life-the-happy-somethings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2022\/05\/24\/single-review-new-life-the-happy-somethings\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: &#8220;New Life&#8221; &#8211; The Happy Somethings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehappysomethings.bandcamp.com\/track\/new-life-2\">Check Out &#8220;New Life&#8221; here on The Happy Somethings Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>My favourite wibbly wobbly timey wimey pop trio are back\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>And as always they bring the goods and they bring it well!<\/p>\n<p>The melody is very much in keeping with their retro sound, but they add some interesting twists from the future too.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&#8220;Welcome to your new life &#8211; start any time you want.<br>Any day or week or month &#8211; it\u2019s always only just begun.<br>Welcome to your new world &#8211; time to start anew.<br>Time for change, start rearranging everything that you do.&#8221;<br><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I like that lyric.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The song has lots of nice things to play with your ears, with lovely harmonies, and there\u2019s the use of retro synths in there which I love the sound of\u2026.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; A Yamaha PSR keyboard is deployed on here, that&#8217;s taken me back to my early days as a musician!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Boy. The Happys make this work SO well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You will need to give me your recipe for this Happys!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>All in all fab work.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This comes from their EP \u201cEgo Test\u201d which will be out on in June via Bandcamp.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly I can\u2019t wait for that to come out.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I interviewed them for Fresh On The Net last year, great bunch of people! Check it out <a href=\"https:\/\/freshonthenet.co.uk\/2021\/05\/interview-the-happy-somethings\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/8tIwRrZN.jpg-large-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/8tIwRrZN.jpg-large-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/8tIwRrZN.jpg-large-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/8tIwRrZN.jpg-large-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/8tIwRrZN.jpg-large-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/8tIwRrZN.jpg-large-107x60.jpeg 107w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/8tIwRrZN.jpg-large.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check Out &#8220;New Life&#8221; here on The Happy Somethings Bandcamp My favourite wibbly wobbly timey wimey pop trio are back\u2026. 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