{"id":17407,"date":"2017-12-04T09:53:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T14:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=17407"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:49:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:49:22","slug":"album-review-wucan-reap-the-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=17407","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Wucan &#8211; Reap the Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wucan \u2013 Reap the Storm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Release Date<\/strong>: September 29, 2017<\/p>\n<p>German krautrock masters Wucan returned this year with, hands down, their best release to date: Reap the Storm. Reap the Storm is a sonically epic album of flute laden 70\u2019s tinged hard rock that is chockfull of epic psychedelic hard rock gems. I know what you\u2019re thinking: \u201cGreat, another Jethro Tull wannabe band.\u201d Honestly, Wucan couldn\u2019t be further from that and, in my opinion, Wucan picks up the ball that Blood Ceremony dropped with their last album by taking their sound to a whole new cosmic level.<\/p>\n<p>Reap the Storm has Wucan truly refining their sound and coming into their own as a band that stands apart from the pack. The album kicks off with the 10 minute epic, \u201cWie Die Wel Sich Dreht\u201d and while I have no fucking clue what lead singer\/flautist\/guitarist Francis Tobolsky is saying, this song just set the pace for what was going to be a cosmic interstellar journey of the mind. The 21 minute \u201cAging Ten Years in Two Seconds\u201d is everything that I love about this kind of music as it mixes elements of folk, psych rock, and ethereal (and at times ambient) layers which combined create a song that actually takes you somewhere.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jtzaAIBfZbI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Closing out with yet another epic track, the 18 minute long \u201cCosmic Guild\u201d was the perfect way to close out this amazing album. It\u2019s hard to imagine that an 18 minute song would leave you wanting more but Wucan did just that. Every song on this album is a psychedelic hard rock gem and Reap the Storm is an album that has secured Wucan a position in the top tier of bands such as Graveyard, Blues Pills, and Siena Root just to name a few. With Reap the Storm, Wucan has also found their grove, solidified their sound, and created an album that I just can\u2019t stop listening to! Bravo kids\u2026 Bravo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wucan \u2013 Reap the Storm Release Date: September 29, 2017 German krautrock masters Wucan returned this year with, hands down, their best release to date: Reap the Storm. Reap the Storm is a sonically epic album of flute laden 70\u2019s tinged hard rock that is chockfull of epic psychedelic hard rock gems. I know what you\u2019re thinking: \u201cGreat, another Jethro Tull wannabe band.\u201d Honestly, Wucan couldn\u2019t be further from that and, in my opinion, Wucan picks up the ball that [&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":[1898],"class_list":["post-17407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-wucan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17407","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=17407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19646,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17407\/revisions\/19646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}