{"id":83,"date":"2004-07-26T02:30:54","date_gmt":"2004-07-26T09:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2023-06-24T00:56:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T07:56:07","slug":"a-new-january-cold-and-naked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/a-new-january-cold-and-naked\/","title":{"rendered":"A New January &#8211; &#8220;Cold And Naked&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tmpl-text-2 boldgrid-section dynamic-gridblock\" style=\"border-width: 0px;\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\n<div class=\"col-md-1 col-sm-2 col-xs-6 col-lg-3\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"bg-img alignleft wp-image-87 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/coldandnaked-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/coldandnaked-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2_0_150_150_coldandnaked.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/coldandnaked-48x48.jpg 48w, http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/coldandnaked-250x248.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/coldandnaked-550x546.jpg 550w, http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/coldandnaked-181x180.jpg 181w, http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/coldandnaked-302x300.jpg 302w, http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/coldandnaked-503x500.jpg 503w, http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/coldandnaked.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-4 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 col-lg-9\">\n<h4 class=\"color1-color\" style=\"margin-top: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #cf2e2e;\">A New January<\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"margin: 20px 0;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Category<\/span>: Industrial<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Album<\/span>: <em>Cold And Naked<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"margin: 20px 0;\">Tightly-constructed, A New January comes across as a band with much promise. But something remains lingering in the back of my mind, nagging at me, as I listen to the tracks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The tracks have a tone and structure akin most prominently to Celldweller, music that is not industrial so much as rock music constructed with electronics. And that sense of melody and construction is translated well in A New January, yet at the same time, there\u2019s a certain lack, seemingly somewhere in the vocals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Despite the tight song structures, the vocals often lack any range or passion, the choruses are no more imperative or energetic than the verses. The lack of change on a song-to-song basis becomes apparent the farther one gets into the album. And the lyrics, not generally a point of contention amongst industrial fans, stand out oddly. The vocals, the backbone of rock-structured music, seem atrophied or underdeveloped and the music suffers for it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Not to say that it is bad in any way. For an independent production, it is as good as any I\u2019ve ever heard. It just seems to lack the energy and soul that drives you to listen to a band again and again. Despite the catchiness of several of the tracks, I have no desire to reach for the album again. And that\u2019s quite a shame, because this is a band deserving of attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Hopefully, in time, they\u2019ll find their stride and meet up to all the potential and promise that they have.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><em>from ReGen Magazine (~7\/2004)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New January Category: Industrial Album: Cold And Naked Tightly-constructed, A New January comes across as a band with much promise. But something remains lingering in the back of my mind, nagging at me, as I listen to the tracks. The tracks have a tone and structure akin most prominently to Celldweller, music that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-regen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}