{"id":11518,"date":"2020-04-05T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=11518"},"modified":"2020-04-01T21:22:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T21:22:35","slug":"11518","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=11518","title":{"rendered":"Empty Friend &#8211; &#8216;Falter&#8217; (Civil War London)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/qq3u1FSO.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11519 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/qq3u1FSO-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/qq3u1FSO-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/qq3u1FSO-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/qq3u1FSO-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/qq3u1FSO-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/qq3u1FSO-1140x1140.png 1140w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/qq3u1FSO-65x65.png 65w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/qq3u1FSO.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s fair to say that Empty Friend walk you down a well trodden path, but this grunge tour de force are very much more than &#8220;tonight Matthew I want to be signed to Sub Pop records&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>With deep cuts such as &#8220;Draw The Line&#8221; which shows elements of Mother Love Bone and &#8220;Neon&#8221;, which any hardened Soundgarden fan would been pleased to have happened upon on the last album release.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The band is dabbling in a genre that people can be quick to ridicule, but they are holding their own, showing the virtues of the sound with original takes and being a lot more than a walk down memory lane.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This EP is a solid release with opener &#8220;You Are Not The Sun&#8221; being the only number verging on pedestrian. I have played the EP several times this week, the band&#8217;s divergent\u00a0alt-rock sound would fit the bill to various stoner rock events such as DesertFest etc and I am looking forward to catching them live at some point.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Buy &#8216;Falter&#8217;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2UULyvz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/emptyfriendmusic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Author: Dan Kasm<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s fair to say that Empty Friend walk you down a well trodden path, but this grunge tour de force are very much more than &#8220;tonight Matthew I want to be signed to Sub Pop records&#8221;. With deep cuts such as &#8220;Draw The Line&#8221; which shows elements of Mother Love Bone and &#8220;Neon&#8221;, which any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[4751,4752],"class_list":["post-11518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-empty-friend","tag-falter","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11522,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11518\/revisions\/11522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}