{"id":4932,"date":"2022-10-16T14:52:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T14:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=4932"},"modified":"2022-10-16T14:52:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T14:52:07","slug":"single-review-riptide-talman-v-the-big-grey-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2022\/10\/16\/single-review-riptide-talman-v-the-big-grey-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: &#8220;Riptide&#8221; Talman V The Big Grey Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"752\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_B13490075148-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_B13490075148-1.jpeg 752w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_B13490075148-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_B13490075148-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_B13490075148-1-435x435.jpeg 435w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_B13490075148-1-60x60.jpeg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 752px) 100vw, 752px\" \/><\/figure>\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 title=\"Spotify Embed: Riptide\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/4PEdEZJFtTeicqhTabPD8g?si=9f92e00c85af4c77&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>What I like about this song is that it\u2019s not conventional\u2026. It starts off with a piano part that sounds grandiose, you could imagine the piano player sitting at a grand piano in coat and tails and playing like their soul depended on it. In the background there are vocal samples of ahhh\u2019s which sound really cool, as well as some strings come in and out, sometimes one single note sometimes pizzicato\u2019d\u2026. It switches up just to keep your ears interested.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Love the drum beat too, as well as the bassline,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is partly rapped partly sung, the lyrics are thought provoking:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou look someone with nothing to lose,<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll warn you this though this life\u2019s not for everyone,<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll know soon enough if it\u2019s not for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This could do well with more moody synths and strings I reckon, I\u2019d love to hear that.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Talman is Chris Talman, a drummer from Worthing down on the south coast, who turned to music production during lockdown &#8211; great idea, add more strings to your bow no pun intended.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to The Big Grey Man\u2019s Spotify bio, and his twitter, he\u2019s an easily distracted singer\/songwriter from Leeds, he makes music like his namesake the Scottish Yeti: Quirky, outdoorsy and not to be taken too seriously.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I like about this song is that it\u2019s not conventional\u2026. It starts off with a piano part that sounds grandiose, you could imagine the piano player sitting at a grand piano in coat and tails and playing like their soul depended on it. In the background there are vocal samples of ahhh\u2019s which sound &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4933,"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":[191,42],"tags":[99,10,266,59,121,127,70],"class_list":["post-4932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative","category-band","tag-drums","tag-music","tag-musician","tag-producer","tag-review","tag-singer-songwriter","tag-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932","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=4932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4934,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions\/4934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}