{"id":1862,"date":"2011-03-18T11:30:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T18:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2011-03-18T11:30:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T18:30:24","slug":"carey-ott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/carey-ott\/","title":{"rendered":"CAREY OTT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/CAREY-OTT-M-Review-December2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1863\" title=\"CAREY-OTT-M-Review-December2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/CAREY-OTT-M-Review-December2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/CAREY-OTT-M-Review-December2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/CAREY-OTT-M-Review-December2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>C<\/strong><strong>AREY OTT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Human Heart<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[DiscoverRock.com]<\/p>\n<p>On his second full-length solo album, Ott again displays the understated melodicism of his previous work as well as a winsome voice reminiscent of Freedy Johnston. On the punchy \u201cWish I Could,\u201d Ott voices his eternal optimism with pithy lines like \u201cI want to talk and communicate with everyone.\u201d That theme continues on the oughta-be-a-hit \u201cBe Honest,\u201d where he croons, \u201cA little more courtesy, empathy\/All that we need,\u201d over a lush, reverb-drenched stack of guitars and synths. For contrast, check out the music-hall stylings of \u201cJe Suis Borderline,\u201d which harkens back to similar tunes from the early days of the Kinks. <em>Human Heart <\/em>contains a bounty of incisive and tuneful music\u201420 tracks totaling over 73 minutes, to be exact. And like most long collections, it could stand to have pruned a few lesser tracks. But why complain about too much of a good thing? \u2013BC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAREY OTT Human Heart [DiscoverRock.com] On his second full-length solo album, Ott again displays the understated melodicism of his previous work as well as a winsome voice reminiscent of Freedy Johnston. On the punchy \u201cWish I Could,\u201d Ott voices his eternal optimism with pithy lines like \u201cI want to talk and communicate with everyone.\u201d That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,1407,1334,1409,1408],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1864,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}