{"id":1711,"date":"2012-11-16T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2012-11-16T16:42:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T16:42:00","slug":"soundgarden-king-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/music\/soundgarden-king-animal\/","title":{"rendered":"Soundgarden &#8211; King Animal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2012\/11\/soundgarden1.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1713\" title=\"soundgarden\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2012\/11\/soundgarden1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2012\/11\/soundgarden1.png 608w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2012\/11\/soundgarden1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2012\/11\/soundgarden1-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mercury\u252c\u00e1|\u252c\u00e112.11.12<\/p>\n<p>2012 has been a big year for the recently reunited Soundgarden. After playing their first UK shows in over 15 years at the Download and Hard Rock Calling festivals this Summer and recording \u00d4\u00c7\u00ffLive To Rise&#8217; for Marvel&#8217;s <em>Avengers Assemble<\/em> in April, the Seattle grunge icons, who rose to fame alongside bands such as Nirvana and Pearl Jam in the early 90&#8217;s, have released <em>King Animal<\/em>, their first studio album since 1996&#8217;s <em>Down On The Upside<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Lead single \u00d4\u00c7\u00ffBeen Away Too Long&#8217; opens the album, an up-tempo hard rocker similar in style to tracks such as \u00d4\u00c7\u00ffRusty Cage&#8217;. From the <em>Superunkown<\/em>-esque unorthodox time signatures of \u00d4\u00c7\u00ffBy Crooked Steps&#8217; to the semi-acoustic \u00d4\u00c7\u00ffHalfway There&#8217;, the band explore all different areas of their sound. Lead singer Chris Cornell (also of <em>Casino Royale<\/em> theme tune \u00d4\u00c7\u00ffYou Know My Name&#8217; fame) sounds in great form, his Robert Plant-influenced vocals providing an effective partnership with Kim Thayil&#8217;s guitar playing, which recalls <em>After the Goldrush<\/em>-era Neil Young one minute and <em>Paranoid<\/em>-era Black Sabbath the next. <em>King Animal<\/em> sounds a lot more natural than \u00d4\u00c7\u00ffLive to Rise&#8217; or Cornell&#8217;s more recent solo work and despite being more solid than spectacular, this should be the album that Soundgarden fans have been waiting for for over a decade.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alec Evans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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