{"id":93365,"date":"2015-05-08T09:11:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T08:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?p=93365"},"modified":"2015-05-21T19:44:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T18:44:54","slug":"skivrecension-mikal-cronin-mciii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?p=93365","title":{"rendered":"Skivrecension: Mikal Cronin \u2013 MCIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cronin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-93366\" src=\"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cronin-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"550_mikalcronin_gatefold.indd\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cronin-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cronin-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cronin.jpg 658w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist: Mikal Cronin<br \/>\nTitel: MCIII<br \/>\nBetyg: 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>P\u00e5 jakt efter de perfekta melodierna. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>F\u00f6rsta g\u00e5ngen jag s\u00e5g Mikal Cronin var p\u00e5 Roskildefestivalen, den danska publiken var allt annat \u00e4n apatisk n\u00e4r han d\u00e5 framf\u00f6rde <em>Apathy<\/em> p\u00e5 en av festivalens minsta scener, redan d\u00e5 stod det klart att Cronin med sin h\u00f6gskoleexamen i musik var mer ambiti\u00f6s \u00e4n de flesta andra lo-fislackers. N\u00e5got hans andra album, 2013 \u00e5rs <em>MCII<\/em>, bekr\u00e4ftade med sin varmare, mer organiska ljudbild.<\/p>\n<p>Nu tar han kanske sitt st\u00f6rsta steg hittills. Det l\u00e5ter st\u00f6rre, vilket redan inledande <em>Turn Around<\/em> \u00e4r ett bra exempel p\u00e5. Det kanske \u00e4r hans f\u00f6rsta l\u00e5t som skulle passa som soundtrack till en dramatisk scen i n\u00e5gon t\u00f6ntig amerikansk tv-serie. Okej, det kanske inte l\u00e4t supersmickrande, men efterf\u00f6ljande <em>Made My Mind Up<\/em> har om m\u00f6jligt \u00e4nnu mer \u201dhitpotential\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>P\u00e5 sitt tredje soloalbum tar den produktive Kalifornienbon till viss del avstamp fr\u00e5n den garagerock som pr\u00e4glat tidigare material och samarbeten. Visst kan det fortfarande bli s\u00e5d\u00e4r \u00f6sigt \u2013 lyssna exempelvis p\u00e5 <em>iv) Ready<\/em> \u2013 men l\u00e5ngtifr\u00e5n hela tiden. Ljudbilden har f\u00f6rfinats och det pendlar ist\u00e4llet mellan olika arrangemang och instrumentationer, l\u00e5tarnas minsta gemensamma n\u00e4mnare \u00e4r snarare melodierna som b\u00e5de k\u00e4nns tidl\u00f6sa och omedelbara. H\u00f6jdpunkten \u00e4r albumets sista sp\u00e5r, med den passande titeln <em>vi) Circle<\/em>\u00a0som f\u00f6r att visa att cirkeln \u00e4r sluten.<\/p>\n<p>B\u00e4sta sp\u00e5r: Made My Mind Up; ii) Gold; vi) Circle<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cr5P5Qc1b8A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Mikal Cronin Titel: MCIII Betyg: 4 P\u00e5 jakt efter de perfekta melodierna. F\u00f6rsta g\u00e5ngen jag s\u00e5g Mikal Cronin var p\u00e5 Roskildefestivalen, den danska publiken var allt annat \u00e4n apatisk n\u00e4r han d\u00e5 framf\u00f6rde Apathy p\u00e5 en av festivalens minsta scener, redan d\u00e5 stod det klart att Cronin med sin h\u00f6gskoleexamen i musik var mer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[11761,8306],"class_list":["post-93365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-musik","category-skivor","tag-mciii","tag-mikal-cronin","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93532,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93365\/revisions\/93532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}