{"id":6254,"date":"2023-12-02T19:18:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T19:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=6254"},"modified":"2023-12-02T19:18:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T19:18:41","slug":"single-review-december-forever-big-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2023\/12\/02\/single-review-december-forever-big-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: &#8220;December, Forever&#8221; &#8211; Big Society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/5FIhF7cLwh3ypcpMN3kVoE?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\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/track=2580966260\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"https:\/\/thebigsocietyband.bandcamp.com\/track\/december-forever\">December, forever by Big Society<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n<p>This is a gorgeous song and it&#8217;s for charity too! I&#8217;ll come back to that in a second&#8230;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is an acoustic number, with a folk leaning. The bass is being played lower down in the neck so it&#8217;s more melodic and higher. This sits comfortably within the arrangement of the song, and it makes it all sound really&#8230; warm. I could imagine this having a string quartet accompanying this.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I feel seen in this lyric:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we go home now, i\u2019ll lose my mind<br \/>It gets dark at 6, and the heatings fried.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like it now that it gets so dark early in the evenings, I want my long sunny days back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The outro from 2:55 with the oohs is where I was drawn in, and it makes for a beautiful outro, something for everyone to sing along to at gigs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\">December, forever is Big Society&#8217;s 2023 charity Christmas release in aid of The Booth Centre, Manchester. <br \/>The Booth Centre is a charity helping people who have been affected by homelessness.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1018\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_1010-1018x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_1010-1018x1024.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_1010-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_1010-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_1010-768x773.jpg 768w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_1010-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_1010.jpg 1144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1018px) 100vw, 1018px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December, forever by Big Society This is a gorgeous song and it&#8217;s for charity too! I&#8217;ll come back to that in a second&#8230;.\u00a0 This is an acoustic number, with a folk leaning. The bass is being played lower down in the neck so it&#8217;s more melodic and higher. This sits comfortably within the arrangement of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6255,"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":[161,42,118,129,218,52,132,176,30,73,150,287,162,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acoustic","category-band","category-bass","category-drums","category-folk","category-guitar","category-lyricist","category-manchester","category-music","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\/6254","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=6254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6256,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254\/revisions\/6256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}