{"id":97892,"date":"2017-04-11T01:55:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T05:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=97892"},"modified":"2017-04-11T01:55:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T05:55:06","slug":"michelle-branch-returns-thrillingly-after-some-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/11\/michelle-branch-returns-thrillingly-after-some-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Branch returns, thrillingly, after some time"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_97893\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97893\" style=\"width: 864px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15895205_10154905531539932_3929512421600419306_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97893\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15895205_10154905531539932_3929512421600419306_n.jpg\" alt=\" The last time Michelle Branch released a full-length solo album was the same year Apple launched iTunes and \u201cFinding Nemo\u201d was in movie theatres. Judging by Branch's excellent new album, let's try to get her back in the studio as soon as possible (Photo: Michelle Branch\/Facebook)\" width=\"864\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15895205_10154905531539932_3929512421600419306_n.jpg 864w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15895205_10154905531539932_3929512421600419306_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15895205_10154905531539932_3929512421600419306_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15895205_10154905531539932_3929512421600419306_n-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-97893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/>The last time Michelle Branch released a full-length solo album was the same year Apple launched iTunes and \u201cFinding Nemo\u201d was in movie theatres. Judging by Branch&#8217;s excellent new album, let&#8217;s try to get her back in the studio as soon as possible (Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MichelleBranch\/photos\/a.438582759931.235483.5519864931\/10154905531539932\/?type=1&amp;theater\"> Michelle Branch\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Michelle Branch, \u201cHopeless Romantic\u201d (Verve Records)<\/p>\n<p>The last time Michelle Branch released a full-length solo album was the same year Apple launched iTunes and \u201cFinding Nemo\u201d was in movie theatres. Judging by Branch&#8217;s excellent new album, let&#8217;s try to get her back in the studio as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>A mature, complex Branch emerges on \u201cHopeless Romantic ,\u201d her voice able to go huskier and much slinkier. Her songwriting is confident about life&#8217;s utter messiness and her sound is rooted more in rock than pop. She&#8217;s still writing about heartbreak and love, but now it&#8217;s sung by a mother and an ex-wife.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t want to waste any more time,\u201d she sings in the superb first song, the lusty \u201cBest You Ever.\u201d She&#8217;s spiky and defiant at an old flame in \u201cNot a Love Song,\u201d ready to be naughty in \u201cBad Side\u201d and sloppily drunk in love in \u201cCarry Me Home.\u201d On \u201cKnock Yourself Out,\u201d she sings: \u201cI&#8217;m just trying to figure out who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are shimmery guitars, handclaps and electronic touches, but the 14-track album \u2014 flawlessly produced by Gus Seyffert and Branch&#8217;s boyfriend, Patrick Carney of The Black Keys \u2014 always, and wisely, keeps Branch front and centre.<\/p>\n<p>Branch, who had hits with \u201cEverywhere\u201d and \u201cAll You Wanted,\u201d largely slipped away after her last solo album in 2003, emerging in 2006 with the short-lived country duo The Wreckers. There was a sense that this promising artist was missing. It turned out that we were the ones missing out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Branch, \u201cHopeless Romantic\u201d (Verve Records) The last time Michelle Branch released a full-length solo album was the same year &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":97893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[17823],"class_list":["post-97892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-michelle-branch","mauthors-mark-kennedy","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}