{"id":5110,"date":"2023-01-27T08:26:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T08:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=5110"},"modified":"2023-01-27T08:26:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T08:26:39","slug":"single-review-cant-touch-the-great-leslie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2023\/01\/27\/single-review-cant-touch-the-great-leslie\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: &#8220;Can&#8217;t Touch&#8221; &#8211; The Great Leslie"},"content":{"rendered":"\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: Can&amp;apos;t Touch\" 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\/6SmRu2FEA69OlGH0QiPL7h?si=kgFoRWPtQdme8mbwz3Yymw&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1015\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_CFB66DB9AC01-1-1024x1015.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_CFB66DB9AC01-1-1024x1015.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_CFB66DB9AC01-1-300x297.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_CFB66DB9AC01-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_CFB66DB9AC01-1-768x761.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_CFB66DB9AC01-1-61x60.jpeg 61w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_CFB66DB9AC01-1.jpeg 1042w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The boys are back in town and they\u2019ve got a cracker of a track proclaiming that they\u2019re planning to make more noise in 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cCan\u2019t Touch\u201d is a mixture of different patterns, first of all it starts off with a guitar riff that chugs off at 16ths, the drums come in at 0:06, all toms that roll, then drop off to a sloppy hi hat open laid back thing where the vocals come in full pelt\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The lyrics are flirtatious: <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I\u2019m feeling sociable,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s uncontrollable,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When this adrenaline is,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Actually nature\u2019s fault,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Are reproachable?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Despite your (devilish) mood?\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0(Wicked)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Are you approachable?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You look approachable,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">0:48 is where everything kind of changes into a shuffle, again the toms are out, and it turns into a bit of a glam rock track with harmonies\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Beautiful. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">My favourite part of the song is at 2:24 where the harmonies come in falsetto and really lift the song.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This is The Great Leslie\u2019s first release of 2023, it\u2019s unorthodox, but then what did you expect?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So who are these lads? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The Great Leslie <\/span><span class=\"s1\">is a metaphysical, Bond-like, Spartacus-esque being, originally in the guise of <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Tony Curtis <\/span><span class=\"s1\">in his crowning role, and now personified by four ex-cons sent down for indecent assault after, loudly, and in unison, passing wind in a cinema. Made up of <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Ollie Trevers <\/span><span class=\"s1\">on <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Vocals <\/span><span class=\"s1\">and <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Rhythm Guitar<\/span><span class=\"s1\">, <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Ryan Lavender <\/span><span class=\"s1\">on <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Drums<\/span><span class=\"s1\">, <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Alfie Pawsey <\/span><span class=\"s1\">on <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Bass<\/span><span class=\"s1\">, and professional German, <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Freddie Miles <\/span><span class=\"s1\">on <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Lead Guitar<\/span><span class=\"s1\">, they have each attested that in another life they would be pirates if it weren\u2019t for their crippling fear of water. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Their bio leaves me with many questions\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The boys are back in town and they\u2019ve got a cracker of a track proclaiming that they\u2019re planning to make more noise in 2023. \u201cCan\u2019t Touch\u201d is a mixture of different patterns, first of all it starts off with a guitar riff that chugs off at 16ths, the drums come in at 0:06, all toms &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5111,"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":[42,118,129,52,132,30,177,150,287,162,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-band","category-bass","category-drums","category-guitar","category-lyricist","category-music","category-rock","category-songwriter","category-track-of-the-day","category-uk","category-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110","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=5110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5112,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110\/revisions\/5112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}