{"id":17220,"date":"2017-08-16T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=17220"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:49:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:49:49","slug":"album-review-siena-root-a-dream-of-lasting-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=17220","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Siena Root &#8211; A Dream of Lasting Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft \" src=\"https:\/\/thegreatsouthernbrainfart.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/siena-root-a-dream-of-lasting-peace.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" \/>Siena Root &#8211; A Dream of Lasting Peace<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Release Date<\/strong>: May 26, 2017<br \/>\n<strong>Label<\/strong>: MIG Music<\/p>\n<p>If you are a frequent visitor to this site, you know how much I love my Swedish rock n\u2019 roll. Whether is the gritty sounds of Graveyard or the groovy, soulful jams Blues Pills, Sweden seems to be responsible to for putting out some of my favorite music. A few years ago I was tipped off to band called Siena Root and their live album Root Jam. The album absolutely blew my mind but unfortunately, the albums that followed didn\u2019t do much for me\u2026 that is until this year when the band released the stellar A Dream of Lasting Peace.<\/p>\n<p>For nearly 20 years, Siena Root acted as a musical collect of sorts featuring a revolving door of guest vocalists and other instrumentalist supporting the core of the band: guitar, bass, and drums. While I dug this concept, I always wondered if this is what may have kept them from achieving a certain level of success that their peers were finding. Inconsistent vocals ranging from amazing to just ok seemed to be what turned me off for the most part but with A Dream of Lasting Peace, Siena Root has solidified a five piece line up that is consistent, tight, and, well, making one of the best fucking albums I have heard all year.<\/p>\n<p>The album kicks off with the jazzy, New Orleans flavored \u201cSecrets\u201d with the organ really dominating the vibe which is not a bad thing at all. The band then takes a sharp turn with \u201cTales of Independence\u201d which loses a bit of the jazz feel but does adopt a sort of New Orleans (N\u2019awlins if you will) funk ala The Meters. The album runs the gamut of genres as the band delves into jazz, the blues, psychedelia, and good old fashioned face rock on \u201cGrowing Underground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The real show stopper on this album is the Led Zeppelin-esque psych blues masterpiece \u201cThe Piper Won\u2019t Let You Stay.\u201d Lead vocalist Samuel Bj\u00f6r\u00f6 really stepped into the light on this one and let his presence be known. His performance gave me chills and that breakdown change in the middle of the song is the shit that epic songs are made of.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VUm5T9efSSE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Siena Root did good and they did it right. A Dream of Lasting Peace sounds like a band that has been doing this together for 20+ years and that\u2019s saying a lot for a band who has relied on a revolving door of talent for the better part of their existence. This album is pure magic. It\u2019s beautiful, it\u2019s nasty, it\u2019s heartfelt, it\u2019s gritty, it\u2019s soulful, and it\u2019s just everything that a great album should be. A Dream of Lasting Peace, in my opinion, is a perfect album. It\u2019s culmination of everything that I love about music in general and squeezed onto one face-melting plastic platter of awesomeness. Yes, I\u2019m excited but can you blame me? Give this one a spin and you feel it too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more on Siena Root, head over to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sienaroot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sienaroot<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siena Root &#8211; A Dream of Lasting Peace Release Date: May 26, 2017 Label: MIG Music If you are a frequent visitor to this site, you know how much I love my Swedish rock n\u2019 roll. Whether is the gritty sounds of Graveyard or the groovy, soulful jams Blues Pills, Sweden seems to be responsible to for putting out some of my favorite music. A few years ago I was tipped off to band called Siena Root and their live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,277],"tags":[1844,1392,1845],"class_list":["post-17220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-psych-rock","tag-siena-root","tag-swedish-invasion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19658,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17220\/revisions\/19658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}