{"id":1938,"date":"2014-03-25T18:30:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T00:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocc.org\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2014-03-25T18:30:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T00:30:40","slug":"ep-of-the-day-alpenglow-solitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/2014\/03\/25\/ep-of-the-day-alpenglow-solitude\/","title":{"rendered":"EP OF THE DAY: Alpenglow &#8211; &#8220;Solitude&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F12270932&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=true&show_comments=false&color=false&show_user=false&show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe>\n<p>Alpenglow \/alp?n?gl?\/ \u2013 \u201cthe rosy light of the setting or rising sun seen on high mountains\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vermont-based band Alpenglow, formed at Middlebury College a few years back, released their debut EP \u201cSolitude\u201d this past October. Their atmospheric sound paired with the soaring vocals of Graeme Daubert place this band in a ripe spot for future success in today&#8217;s indie folk-rock scene.<\/p>\n<p>I had the good fortune of seeing Alpenglow this past summer at a small music festival in Burlington, and I came away with one word: POLISHED. Although this band is in its beginning stages, they have a definitive, artful sound. The songs on this EP will inspire you to go bask in the glorious wilderness of Colorado and perhaps find that rosy glow on the snow-capped mountaintops.<\/p>\n<p>On the title track, the fiddle and three-part harmonies contrast heavily with the amplified sound of the rest of the band, creating a country vs. city dynamic, also present in the lyrics: \u201cIf I wanted my solitude, I\u2019d move to the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The band bends these genres and images together with a delicious result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alpenglow \/alp?n?gl?\/ \u2013 \u201cthe rosy light of the setting or rising sun seen on high mountains\u201d Vermont-based band Alpenglow, formed at Middlebury College a few years back, released their debut EP \u201cSolitude\u201d this past October. Their atmospheric sound paired with the soaring vocals of Graeme Daubert place this band in a ripe spot for future [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1099,"featured_media":1939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[30,54,62,73,93,124,143],"class_list":["post-1938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-alpenglow","tag-ep","tag-folk-rock","tag-indie","tag-music-2","tag-solitude","tag-vermont"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa7fJU-vg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}