{"id":3352,"date":"2021-07-10T00:19:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/?p=3352"},"modified":"2021-07-10T00:21:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T00:21:59","slug":"ruiz-mind-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/?p=3352","title":{"rendered":"Ruiz! &#8211; Mind Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<br><p>Ruiz! is based in Sheffield where he created this record during the lockdown himself and this is his first such great work.&nbsp; Since there was a lot of rock n roll in his past, it will not disappear now.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p><br><p>In the first song of &#8216;A Certain Direction&#8217; we hear a stretched dynamic song with a pronounced synthesizer tremolo. Heavy guitars fill the space of the composition together with double vocals. The song &#8216;Morning&#8217; sounds like a soft resonant guitar together with the drive create the aesthetics of real art rock.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p><br><p>The energetic track &#8216;Flying&#8217; has groove and britpop sound. Minimalist synthesizer melisms are inserted between fresh verses with overloaded guitars. Minor &#8216;Please Baby Please&#8217; is viscous and dark rock n roll. The track &#8216;Planet Psyche&#8217; continues the theme of Britpop and sounds great with polyphony and spinning sound.&nbsp;<\/p><br><p>Listen to the full album &#8216;Mind Games&#8217; from Ruiz! on Spotify below and immerse yourself in a whirlwind of guitar sounds and rich rhythm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Embed: Mind Games\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/07uDE1wTHbCqDc65qfarAq\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruiz! is a solo project of a musician with a rich musical past marked participation in several successful British bands. The artist entered the music scene again with the album &#8216;Mind Games&#8217;.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[88,14],"class_list":["post-3352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-britpop","tag-uk"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Ruiz-Mind_Games-mind_games_arm_cig_digipack-1-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352","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=3352"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3359,"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions\/3359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}