{"id":789,"date":"2010-08-13T11:10:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T18:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=789"},"modified":"2010-08-13T11:10:29","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T18:10:29","slug":"greg-laswell-take-a-bow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/greg-laswell-take-a-bow\/","title":{"rendered":"GREG LASWELL + Take a Bow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Take-a-Bow-M3-Review-May2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-790\" title=\"Take-a-Bow-M3-Review-May2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Take-a-Bow-M3-Review-May2010.jpg\" alt=\"Take a Bow\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Take-a-Bow-M3-Review-May2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Take-a-Bow-M3-Review-May2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>G<\/strong><strong>REG LASWELL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Take a Bow<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Vanguard]<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of three albums and three EPs, Greg Laswell has fostered a subdued sound that whispers softly but leaves an enormous impression. The self-produced <em>Take a Bow<\/em> is no exception. It\u2019s his most formidable set yet, one that dispels the ambiguity of earlier efforts and replaces it with more stirring melodies and a genuinely compelling sonic palette. As always, Laswell specializes in minor-key ballads, but with songs such as \u201cMy Fight (For You)\u201d and \u201cIn Front of Me,\u201d the somber settings quickly swell into grand crescendos. Like his previous outings, Laswell continues to demonstrate a talent for balancing heartbreak and desire with solitary contemplation. But <em>Take a Bow<\/em> also finds some rare moments of optimism, particularly on the title track, \u201cOff I Go\u201d and \u201cTake Everything\u201d (the latter built around four-string tenor guitar and an effusive rhythm). Laswell has ample reason to heed his own album\u2019s title.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Lee Zimmerman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREG LASWELL Take a Bow [Vanguard] Over the course of three albums and three EPs, Greg Laswell has fostered a subdued sound that whispers softly but leaves an enormous impression. The self-produced Take a Bow is no exception. It\u2019s his most formidable set yet, one that dispels the ambiguity of earlier efforts and replaces it [&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":[196,421,70,422,423],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789"}],"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=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}