{"id":106,"date":"2009-11-30T14:08:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T20:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=106"},"modified":"2009-11-30T14:08:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T20:08:07","slug":"daniel-merriweather-love-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2009\/11\/30\/daniel-merriweather-love-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Merriweather – Love & War"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"merriweather\"Not to be confused with Dan the Automator\u2019s fictional alter-ego Nathaniel Merriweather, Daniel Merriweather is very much a real person\u2014and a really talented person at that. Having first popped up on Mark Ronson\u2019s Version, where he provided the vocals for \u201cStop Me,\u201d the 27-year-old Australian now releases his debut record for the revived Jive Records. Ronson continues to play kingmaker though, as he serves as producer for Love & War, and it\u2019s not some vanity credit, either. His touch is all over this record, such as his enlisting Binky Griptite and the rest of the Dap-Kings to drop the funk on a number of cuts. Love & War is replete with the same polished n\u00fc-funk that Ronson displayed on Version, chock-a-block with hooks, punchy rhythm guitar and snappy drums. But those are just the stage atop which Merriweather stands and he manages to carry the album on the strength of his vocals. At times they soar, but still they\u2019re always muscular and grounded. Check out the hook on \u201cImpossible,\u201d where he reaches the high-notes of \u201cyour love\u201d and you can picture him standing on tip-toes to hit it but never taking his foot off center stage. Guests Wale and Adele contribute capable but understated vocals on \u201cChange\u201d and \u201cWater and A Flame\u201d respectively, but Merriweather never allows himself to be overshadowed\u2014not by this pair or the legion of musicians who lend their instruments to the battle (including Sean Lennon on guitar!). This is polished pop music at its finest. (Jive Records, www.zombalabelgroup.com<\/a>) Michael Elves<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not to be confused with Dan the Automator\u2019s fictional alter-ego Nathaniel Merriweather, Daniel Merriweather is very much a real person\u2014and a really talented person at that. Having first popped up on Mark Ronson\u2019s Version, where he provided the vocals for \u201cStop Me,\u201d the 27-year-old Australian now releases his debut record for the revived Jive Records. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}