{"id":23327,"date":"2018-11-24T21:35:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T20:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/?p=23327"},"modified":"2018-11-25T10:58:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T09:58:43","slug":"the-pollies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/2018\/11\/the-pollies-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pollies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-23328\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/a1341781018_16-200x200.jpg?resize=125%2C125\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/a1341781018_16.jpg?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/a1341781018_16.jpg?resize=75%2C75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/a1341781018_16.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/>Velen van jullie hebben <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pollies.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Pollies<\/a> wel eens aan het werk gezien, maar dan als begeleiders van Dylan LeBlanc op zijn laaglandse tournees. Maar ook als eigen entiteit brengen The Pollies albums uit. <strong>Transmissions<\/strong> (This Is American Music) is de nieuwste boreling van het Amerikaanse kwartet. De koers die al op het vorige album <em>Not Here<\/em>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/2015\/10\/the-pollies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">zie recensie<\/a>) werd ingezet, van altcountry richting indierock, wordt op deze plaat vervolgd. Met synthesizers, scheurende gitaren en stampende drums in <em>You Want It<\/em> wordt het bal geopend. \u00a0Daarna mogen de gitaren <!--more-->rinkelen in <em>Hold\u00a0On My Heart<\/em>.\u00a0 The Pollies laveren daarna, onder leiding van de niet erg warm zingende Jay Burgess tussen die hardere rock en rinkeldekinkel folkrock. Zenuwslopend is wel het gefreak waarmee een paar nummers worden afgesloten (<em>Postcard Symphony<\/em> en <em>Knocking At My Door<\/em>). Zeker niet slecht dus, maar wel een stuk minder dan op het vorige album. Als bonustrack voegen ze nog een aardige cover van Neil Young\u2019s <em>Unknown Legend<\/em> toe.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3384444682\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=e99708\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=1603247478\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thepollies.bandcamp.com\/album\/transmissions\">Transmissions by The Pollies<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Velen van jullie hebben The Pollies wel eens aan het werk gezien, maar dan als begeleiders van Dylan LeBlanc op zijn laaglandse tournees. Maar ook als eigen entiteit brengen The Pollies albums uit. Transmissions (This Is American Music) is de nieuwste boreling van het Amerikaanse kwartet. De koers die al op het vorige album Not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recensies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23327"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23336,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23327\/revisions\/23336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}