{"id":3252,"date":"2021-07-05T22:45:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T22:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/?p=3252"},"modified":"2021-07-05T22:47:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T22:47:37","slug":"the-mergers-three-apples-in-the-orange-grove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/?p=3252","title":{"rendered":"The Mergers &#8211; Three Apples In The Orange Grove"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<br><p>&#8216;Outta My Way&#8217; is crazy rock at a fast pace that is racing on its track catching up with bands like The Kinks.&nbsp;<\/p><br><p>The folk ballad &#8216;In Cours Of Time&#8217; successfully conveys the mood of the era of beautiful times when bands included folk songs in their repertoire and made a miracle out of them. In this arrangement, the band added to the traditional soft-rock the reef development of the composition, which sounds conceptual and original.&nbsp;<\/p><br><p>&#8216;Better Days&#8217; is a psychedelic track that has an Indian melody in verses and choral choruses with beautiful rock vocals.&nbsp;<\/p><br><p>&#8216;End Of The Day&#8217; is another fast rock engine with a simple rhythm and a celebration of guitars at a garage party.&nbsp;<\/p><br><p>&#8216;Sold Down the River&#8217; &#8211; sounds convincing in a modern American garage blues like The Black Keys. The track has a more modern sound among others and reflects experiments with the band&#8217;s sound.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p><br><p>Listen to the full album &#8216;Three Apples In The Orange Grove&#8217; below on Spotify and breathe the real rock n roll spirit that The Mergers gives us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Three Apples in the Orange Grove\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/6ZWp1HfHOno38V8G5ITiqR?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third album is an important step on the way for every ambitious rock band. For the German band The Mergers, such a step was the album &#8216;Three Apples In The Orange Grove&#8217;. The real sound of the blues rock and the psychedelic of the 60s in modern processing and contemporary creative meaning awaits its listener, and we will write a few words about some hits from this album. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[72,76],"class_list":["post-3252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-garage-rock","tag-germany"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/The_Mergers-Three_Apples_in_the_Orange_Grove-The_Mergers_-_Three_Apples_In_The_Orange_Grove_-_Cover.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3252"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3257,"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions\/3257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}