{"id":2525,"date":"2018-11-30T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2018-11-30T15:50:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T15:50:54","slug":"ginger-the-pessimists-companion-round-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=2525","title":{"rendered":"Ginger \u2013 The Pessimist’s Companion (Round Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ginger swings from rock genius to self-indulgent pledge monster, crafting some of the finest tunes the UK has tasted in the last 25 years or so, but seemingly a social media time bomb primed to explode. Either way, whenever I’ve met him he’s been a totally nice guy so in I guess that’s just the internet for you…<\/p>\n

Kicking off with the low key \u201cMay The Restless Find Peace\u201d, I can’t quite place the songs it reminds me of but it’s a nice downer of a tune much greater than the sum of its parts.<\/p>\n

On to \u201cWhy Aye (Oh You)\u201d.\u00a0 I could be facetious and say this is pound shop Jimmy Nail or I could be constructive and compare it to Del Amitri. You decide.<\/p>\n

The album carries on in a similar vein. I guess the slide guitar gives it a country kind of vibe. You could say it’s a companion piece to 2018’s previous outing \u201cGhost in the Tangle Wood\u201d It certainly sounds like an extension of that acoustic driven folky introspective sound.<\/p>\n

Along with the aforementioned \u201cMay The Restless Find Peace\u201d, \u201cBetter Love\u201d is another standout track. To my ears it has a Crowded House feel, with perhaps a bit like Billy Bragg’s \u201cDon’t Try This At Home\u201d era. A great tune none-the-less.<\/p>\n

The title track \u201cThe Pessimist’s Companion\u201d has a bit more going on but remains on the \u201csounding up but feeling down\u201d theme.<\/p>\n

Like many of the tunes found here, \u201cSweet Wanderlust\u201d and \u201cIn Reverse\u201d feel like sketches of classic (Wildhearts) tunes, proving without a doubt that below the self-destruction is a great songwriter trying to find his way out of a chaotic mind.<\/p>\n

Last up is the dark and desperate \u201cThere Is A House\u201d. Another stand out tune and certainly one you’ll want to skip back to once the album ends.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, if you’re a paid-up disciple of Ginger’s gang you’re gonna love this album. whatever I or anyone else thinks about it and more power to you.<\/p>\n

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Buy Ginger Wildheart Here<\/a><\/p>\n

Author: Fraser Munro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ginger swings from rock genius to self-indulgent pledge monster, crafting some of the finest tunes the UK has tasted in the last 25 years or so, but seemingly a social media time bomb primed to explode. Either way, whenever I’ve met him he’s been a totally nice guy so in I guess that’s just the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[791,790,226],"class_list":["post-2525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-ginger-wildheart","tag-round-records","tag-the-wildhearts","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525","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=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2626,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions\/2626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}