{"id":6055,"date":"2023-10-31T17:08:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T17:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=6055"},"modified":"2023-10-31T19:20:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T19:20:24","slug":"single-review-hold-the-weight-rosie-frater-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/31\/single-review-hold-the-weight-rosie-frater-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: &#8220;Hold The Weight&#8221; &#8211; Rosie Frater-Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/7HKZlaW6DrULaIafeMoCbz?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<p>This is a stunning piece of soul and blues\u2026.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It starts off with an acoustic guitar in the intro but then it\u2019s joined by Rosie\u2019s electric guitar\u2026.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>BOY can she play! WOW!!!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been a fan from way back but this is taking it to another level.<\/p>\n<p>The chord changes are straight out of a jazz fusion playbook, like she studied Toto, but then there\u2019s also a little bit of a prog rock thing going on with the time signature, all this needs is a dirty synth lead\u2026<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>My favourite bit is at 3:03 onwards where everything changes. Rosie just really sings her heart out with different parts and this is what blows my mind, the build up to the end is bang on.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I like these lyrics too:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRead all the lines,<\/p>\n<p>Encrypted the lies,<\/p>\n<p>Won\u2019t be undermined,<\/p>\n<p>You can shout all you like but what you gonna do?<\/p>\n<p>When you can\u2019t turn the page for a heart full of rage,<\/p>\n<p>Words won\u2019t hold the weight.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This could be applied to so many things today as we live in a world full of information overload\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>This is a beauty of a track.<\/p>\n<p>With a clear sense of purpose, Londoner, singer, songwriter &amp; guitarist Rosie Frater-Taylor blurs the lines <span class=\"peekaboo-text\">between<\/span><span class=\"bcTruncateMore\"><span class=\"peekaboo-text\"> jazz, folk, pop &amp; soul. Rosie&#8217;s 2nd album &#8216;Bloom&#8217; (2021) was nominated at Gilles Peterson\u2019s WorldWide Awards, named Jazz FM &#8216;Album Of The Week&#8217; and made KCRW&#8217;s &#8216;Albums Of The Year&#8217; list. \u2018Bloom\u2019 caught the attention of the biggest radios and tastemakers in the UK and EU.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This new track is from her forthcoming album &#8220;Featherweight&#8221; available on pre order at Bandcamp and due for release in February 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"867\" height=\"864\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0633.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6058\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0633.jpg 867w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0633-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0633-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0633-768x765.jpg 768w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0633-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 867px) 100vw, 867px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a stunning piece of soul and blues\u2026.\u00a0 It starts off with an acoustic guitar in the intro but then it\u2019s joined by Rosie\u2019s electric guitar\u2026.\u00a0 BOY can she play! WOW!!! I\u2019ve been a fan from way back but this is taking it to another level. The chord changes are straight out of a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6058,"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":[161,118,181,129,52,139,143,132,30,142,177,73,150,287,162,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acoustic","category-bass","category-blues","category-drums","category-guitar","category-jazz","category-london","category-lyricist","category-music","category-producer","category-rock","category-singer-songwriter","category-songwriter","category-track-of-the-day","category-uk","category-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6055","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=6055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6059,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6055\/revisions\/6059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}