{"id":663,"date":"2016-07-01T12:06:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T16:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=663"},"modified":"2016-11-09T04:19:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T09:19:08","slug":"new-release-roundup-sara-watkins-ranch-ghost-albert-brooks-on-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2016\/07\/01\/new-release-roundup-sara-watkins-ranch-ghost-albert-brooks-on-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"New Release Roundup – Sara Watkins, Ranch Ghost, Albert Brooks on Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"

MUSIC<\/strong> <\/p>\n

1. Sara Watkins<\/a> \u2013 Young In All the Wrong Ways<\/em>
\nIf you only know Sara Watkins as the fiddle player from Nickel Creek, the opening song on her latest album, Young In All the Wrong Ways<\/em>, might be a minor shock. It\u2019s an aggressive sound \u2013 big, boomy drums, crunchy electric guitars, and she comes out wailing. Not a fiddle in sight. \u201cI\u2019m going out to see about my own frontier,\u201d she sings, and it seems best to believe her. This is her third solo album, and she\u2019s done plenty of other work outside of Nickel Creek (I\u2019m With Her, Watkins Family Hour), so it\u2019s not declaration of independence. And the fiddle does show up a bit later, but Watkins isn\u2019t bound to a particular sound or expectation. She lets loose again on \u201cMove Me,\u201d a great pop gem. And she uses dynamics really well, moving from delicate folky passages to soaring rock like a sucker punch. She just kicked off a fairly extensive tour of the US and the UK<\/a>, and this would be a good album to catch her supporting.
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