{"id":4795,"date":"2022-07-27T08:21:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T08:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=4795"},"modified":"2022-07-27T08:21:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T08:21:06","slug":"single-review-how-can-you-sit-there-kael-alden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2022\/07\/27\/single-review-how-can-you-sit-there-kael-alden\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: &#8220;How Can You Sit There?&#8221; Kael Alden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That first sung note is glorious! Such power, it made me sit up and take note that this wasn\u2019t just any ordinary track.<\/p>\n<p>The song starts off with a line that\u2019s sung so powerfully you just can\u2019t help but want to hear more to see where it\u2019s going.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can you sit there and let this happen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s it. That\u2019s the line.<\/p>\n<p>So simple but that\u2019s all that\u2019s needed.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The beat drops in, bassline and guitar playing a simple progression, it\u2019s hypnotic, and Kael comes in with some powerful vocals processed through effects to give it that solid punch, his falsetto is intriguing mr so much! Wow\u2026<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Overall a very sparse production, but it\u2019s to serve the song, and the vocal is the star here.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This reminds me a bit of Portishead, especially of the \u201cDummy\u201d album, it just makes me want to time travel back to that period of my life\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Kael Alden is a composer who grew up in a Colorado town, and according to his bio has always been surrounded by music learning piano in kindergarten, being exposed to his parents\u2019 vinyl collection, and listening to the music of the games that he played.<\/p>\n<p>What an education.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also an accomplished film and tv composer having written for the LA based music house Robot Repair, and part of the band Faded Paper Figures, and thanks to his PR, I now need to go seek out his work with them too\u2026.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\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: How Can You Sit There?\" 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\/1IpFOi1vQ7ykqWk1f8NGoV?si=23ff04a336c7460b&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.\u00a0 That first sung note is glorious! Such power, it made me sit up and take note that this wasn\u2019t just any ordinary track. The song starts off with a line that\u2019s sung so powerfully you just can\u2019t help but want to hear more to see where it\u2019s going.\u00a0 \u201cHow can you sit there and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4796,"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":[191,248,118,262,229,129,52,131,30,142,73,150,175,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative","category-ambient","category-bass","category-colorado","category-composer","category-drums","category-guitar","category-los-angeles","category-music","category-producer","category-singer-songwriter","category-songwriter","category-soul","category-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795","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=4795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4797,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions\/4797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}