{"id":84273,"date":"2019-06-18T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=84273"},"modified":"2023-04-07T14:26:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T13:26:51","slug":"review-the-dangerous-summer-mother-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-the-dangerous-summer-mother-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Dangerous Summer \u2013\u00a0Mother Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-84276 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/the-dangerous-summer-mother-nature-music-review-punk-rock-theory-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/the-dangerous-summer-mother-nature-music-review-punk-rock-theory-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/the-dangerous-summer-mother-nature-music-review-punk-rock-theory-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/the-dangerous-summer-mother-nature-music-review-punk-rock-theory-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/the-dangerous-summer-mother-nature-music-review-punk-rock-theory-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/the-dangerous-summer-mother-nature-music-review-punk-rock-theory.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>For emo fans of a certain age, it might seem like\u00a0<strong>The Dangerous Summer\u00a0<\/strong>are still new on the scene, although they arrived over a decade ago.\u00a0The sense of novelty intensified last year, when the Maryland band returned from a five-year hiatus with a self-titled album \u2013 one that disappointed some; one that felt rushed to others. They were back, but something wasn&#8217;t quite right.<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0<em>&#8216;Mother Nature&#8217;<\/em>, it doesn&#8217;t take long to sense that AJ Perdomo&#8217;s songs have regained their verve and all-cards-on-the-table sincerity. If this had been the comeback LP, <em>&#8216;Bring Me Back To Life Now&#8217;<\/em> would have been a fitting comeback single, and not only in name. The shimmering synths evoke the record&#8217;s title and the immense wave of the artwork, while Perdomo continues the elemental theme: <em>&#8220;give me back the sun now&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The Dangerous Summer - Bring Me Back To Life (Official Music Video)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bwd2TCQ1ujY?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Better still is\u00a0<em>&#8216;Starting Over \/ Slow Down&#8217;<\/em>, the opening part of which is a wonderfully balanced, mid-tempo track that utilises piano and acoustic guitar before giving way to the thrill of the latter: an electrifying construction of drums, bass and mesmerising keyboard. This double track is <em>&#8216;Mother Nature&#8217;<\/em>&#8216;s highlight.<\/p>\n<p>After the hiatus, many returned to 2009&#8217;s\u00a0<em>&#8216;Reach for the Sun&#8217;\u00a0<\/em>or its follow-up, <em>&#8216;War Paint&#8217;,\u00a0<\/em>on which <em>&#8216;Mother Nature&#8221;s<\/em>\u00a0<em>&#8216;Virginia&#8217;<\/em> would have been at home. Its punky, back-to-basics guitar assault and a coarse Perdomo recall vintage<strong>\u00a0Dangerous Summer<\/strong> and in such emphatic fashion that suggests the band&#8217;s best has returned.\u00a0And there is further proof: the title track&#8217;s patient build and cathartic, final release is one embodiment of it. <em>&#8216;Better Light&#8217;<\/em>&#8216;s Bon Iver-esque vocoder experimentation, a simple but ethereal and effective tool, is another.<\/p>\n<p>That\u00a0<em>&#8216;Mother Nature&#8217;\u00a0<\/em>arrives not even 18 months on from the self-titled album perhaps tells its own story in regard to how the group felt about that release. This record \u2013 a fine piece of work \u2013 will be remembered as the real comeback.<\/p>\n<p>4\/5<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Mother Nature&#8217;<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0<strong>The Dangerous Summer<\/strong> is out now on\u00a0<strong>Hopeless Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Dangerous Summer<\/strong> links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedangeroussummer.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thedangeroussummer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dangeroussummer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thedangeroussummer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by Peter Stewart (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/PeteStew_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@PeteStew_<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Dangerous Summer have returned to their best\u2026 a fine piece of work&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":84276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5879,246,17206,15030,259],"class_list":["post-84273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-reviews","tag-hopeless-records","tag-mother-nature","tag-peter-stewart","tag-the-dangerous-summer"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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