{"id":414,"date":"2010-10-04T23:34:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T03:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevinwongmusic.com\/?p=414"},"modified":"2010-10-04T23:34:48","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T03:34:48","slug":"muses-muse-review-of-the-pink-in-the-grey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinwongmusic.com\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"Muse&#8217;s Muse Review of &#8220;The Pink in the Grey&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pleased to say that I found a very positive and encouraging review from Gian Fiero, whose reviews I have respected for years now! For some reason, while this review was put up in July, I was only able to track it down now:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Wong is a talented Canadian singer\/songwriter\/musician, and a student of quality songs and songwriting. It comes through on this commercially ambitious project which captures influences from Elton John to Boys To Men. His sophomore project finds him experiencing musical growth and taking creative risks, while displaying his penchant for lyrical substance.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAt the forefront of every song are Kevin&#8217;s emotive and distinguished performances in which he delivers vocally and musically, as evidence in his best and most commercial song, &#8220;Legion Of The Broken,&#8221; which lingers in both memory and spirit. His smooth, masculine tenor is gently coddled by free-flowing melodies which characterize his vocal style and repertoire.<\/p>\n<p>Other stand-out tracks include the Elton John-esque, &#8220;Out Of Reach,&#8221; which is perfect marriage of Kevin&#8217;s piano playing and vocal skills; the musically engaging track, &#8220;The Solution,&#8221; the tender R&amp;B flavored ballad, &#8220;Away From Us,&#8221; the thought-provoking ditty, &#8220;Denial,&#8221; and the sparse but effective, &#8220;Mr. Secrets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you are a fan of Adult Contemporary music and you are looking for a CD by an artist who you will enjoy more, and more with each listen,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gian Fiero&#8217;s review of The Pink in the Grey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[169,168,167,87],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-updates","tag-gian-fiero","tag-muses-muse","tag-pink-in-the-grey","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinwongmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinwongmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinwongmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinwongmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinwongmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinwongmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinwongmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinwongmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinwongmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinwongmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}