{"id":6707,"date":"2024-11-02T05:02:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T05:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=6707"},"modified":"2024-11-05T17:51:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T17:51:17","slug":"single-review-pretty-baby-garlen-lo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2024\/11\/02\/single-review-pretty-baby-garlen-lo\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: &#8220;Pretty Baby&#8221; &#8211; Garlen Lo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"766\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_5574.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_5574.jpg 780w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_5574-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_5574-768x754.jpg 768w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_5574-61x60.jpg 61w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/4iBB6ZYBKcAaUsmFiKFFsK?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>Garlen Lo is back with his brand of humour and self deprecating lyrics in this song that he wrote at the age of 17. One thing I wanted to point out is that he\u2019s really good at this homemade kind of sound &#8211; acoustic guitar recorded to tape and mixed so that you get the feeling he\u2019s trying to break through the limitations of technology. It\u2019s a great audio aesthetic! Add to that the mixing choices &#8211; the instruments and vocals are placed so that it cals back to the way the Beatles used to record &#8211; if you listen to a mono record, you&#8217;ll have the vocals in one ear and instruments being mixed left to right. This was the limitations of technology back then, and as this is deliberate, it works very well! Having grown up recording to tape, and using 4 track machines in the 80s and 90s this speaks to me. I was speaking to Will Farr a FOTN regular about this a couple of days ago, so it\u2019s strange that this came up\u2026 anyway I mention Garlen\u2019s self deprecating sense of humour check this out:<br \/><br \/>\u201cI make you smile when I call you pretty baby<br \/>But it\u2019s not of the kind I want<br \/>You\u2019re just laughing at me, failing miserably<br \/>Maybe it\u2019s the time I stop.\u201d<br \/><br \/>Even at 17 he was self aware! I wonder if he will write a song about me writing a review of him on instagram. That would be meta. See what I did there?<\/p>\n<p class=\"Type__TypeElement-sc-goli3j-0 cHsoWR\" data-encore-id=\"type\">According to his Spotify bio: Garlen Lo is a born-and-bred Londoner of Hong Kong-Chinese origin. Aged 7 he was raised by a wine-guzzling auntie who played country music at max volume. One Christmas, he got a guitar and took naturally to writing drunken singalongs with twee wordplay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Type__TypeElement-sc-goli3j-0 cHsoWR\" data-encore-id=\"type\">He formed an unruly, skinny-jeaned indie band in the mid-2000s, but after that imploded, tried to become a respectable member of society. Not quite succeeding at that either, he resumed his love for songwriting during the pandemic. The result is this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Type__TypeElement-sc-goli3j-0 cHsoWR\" data-encore-id=\"type\">He is a one-man band: playing all the instruments, singing, producing, and making the music videos. Songs about lost love seems to be his thing. His Mastermind subject would be The Beatles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Type__TypeElement-sc-goli3j-0 cHsoWR\" data-encore-id=\"type\">*For a short time, he went by the artist name Hong Kong Cockney but lacked the confidence to see it through. He likes it as a nickname though, like Springsteen&#8217;s The Boss.<\/p>\n<p data-encore-id=\"type\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-encore-id=\"type\">\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garlen Lo is back with his brand of humour and self deprecating lyrics in this song that he wrote at the age of 17. One thing I wanted to point out is that he\u2019s really good at this homemade kind of sound &#8211; acoustic guitar recorded to tape and mixed so that you get the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6709,"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":[161,191,118,52,143,132,30,180,149,142,73,150,287,162,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acoustic","category-alternative","category-bass","category-guitar","category-london","category-lyricist","category-music","category-pop","category-pop-music","category-producer","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\/6707","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=6707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6718,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707\/revisions\/6718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}