{"id":7129,"date":"2025-07-09T09:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T09:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=7129"},"modified":"2025-07-10T03:41:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T03:41:19","slug":"single-review-say-the-word-sunflower-thieves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/single-review-say-the-word-sunflower-thieves\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: &#8220;Say The Word&#8221; &#8211; Sunflower Thieves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/odesli.co\/embed\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsong.link%2Fs%2F7tPPCfIkqUIJdZ4OLqtUk3&#038;theme=light\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"561\" height=\"581\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/81B42986-95CF-4E55-B880-6A449A9CEF01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/81B42986-95CF-4E55-B880-6A449A9CEF01.jpg 561w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/81B42986-95CF-4E55-B880-6A449A9CEF01-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/81B42986-95CF-4E55-B880-6A449A9CEF01-58x60.jpg 58w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Sunflower Thieves are back with a cracker of a song &#8211; big acoustic guitars, drums that cut through the mix, especially during the pre chorus with toms that really sound pleasing to the ear. <br \/><br \/>Add to this a cello, and ethereal vocals and you have The Sunflower Thieves down to a tee. <br \/><br \/>This song is about solidarity- though I\u2019d worry if someone said they\u2019d burn down someone\u2019s house for cheating on me! But this shows their sense of humour. I love the bass line being played &#8211; I need to shout this out because there was a chromatic run that made me grin like a Cheshire cat, it happens twice toward the end and it\u2019s a beauty of a run! Great work. <br \/><br \/>Sunflower Thieves are Amy Illingworth and Lily Sturt-Bolshaw, they have had my heart since their song \u201cSirens\u201d easily one of my favourite songs of the last 25 years. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunflower Thieves are back with a cracker of a song &#8211; big acoustic guitars, drums that cut through the mix, especially during the pre chorus with toms that really sound pleasing to the ear. Add to this a cello, and ethereal vocals and you have The Sunflower Thieves down to a tee. This song is &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7130,"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":[161,118,129,218,52,31,132,30,37,180,149,142,73,150,287,162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acoustic","category-bass","category-drums","category-folk","category-guitar","category-keyboards","category-lyricist","category-music","category-piano","category-pop","category-pop-music","category-producer","category-singer-songwriter","category-songwriter","category-track-of-the-day","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129","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=7129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7131,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129\/revisions\/7131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}