{"id":104,"date":"2020-09-29T00:53:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T22:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shamall.de\/en\/?p=104"},"modified":"2023-03-26T23:36:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T21:36:24","slug":"surprise-of-the-month-shamall-schizophrenia-rock-city-13-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shamall.de\/en\/surprise-of-the-month-shamall-schizophrenia-rock-city-13-15\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Surprise of the month: Shamall &#8211; Schizophrenia!&#8221; &#8211; Rock City (13 \/ 15)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>c\/o Rock City Magazine, Bremen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In times like these (streams, poor CD sales, hardly any loyalty to the bands &#8211; except in Hard Rock \/ Heavy Metal) &#8220;Value for Money&#8221; is particularly important.<br>The fans should get real pleasure from the product CD. With the new double album by Shamall the package is extremely impressive: double-folding digipak, lavish booklet and with 22 songs, a playing time potential that has been fully exploited. And the 18-minute opener and at the same time title track is a real reference song for the Prog Rock \/ Kraut Rock band from Germany. Massive, with furious build-up, absolutely perfectly produced and qualitatively equal to the &#8220;Intro\/Welcome&#8221; cult song by Streetmark (from the Dry album).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no better way to celebrate Prog Rock! The album contains an incredible number of highlights in the period that followed, such as the hard &#8220;The inconvenient truth p.I and p.II&#8221;, the instrumental but furious &#8220;On the run&#8221; or the somehow catchy &#8220;Foolin&#8217; myself&#8221;, to name just a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe the best Kraut and Prog album of the last 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">c\/o Rock City, September 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"657\" src=\"https:\/\/shamall.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/IMG-Rezi-1024x657.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shamall.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/IMG-Rezi-1024x657.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shamall.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/IMG-Rezi-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shamall.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/IMG-Rezi-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shamall.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/IMG-Rezi.jpg 1236w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>c\/o Rock City Magazine, Bremen In times like these (streams, poor CD sales, hardly any loyalty to the bands &#8211; except in Hard Rock \/ Heavy Metal) &#8220;Value for Money&#8221; is particularly important.The fans should get real pleasure from the product CD. With the new double album by Shamall the package is extremely impressive: double-folding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[23,69,65,67,19,63],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press","category-reviews","tag-krautrock","tag-perfectly-produced","tag-prog","tag-reference-song","tag-shamall","tag-streetmark"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shamall.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shamall.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shamall.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shamall.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shamall.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shamall.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/shamall.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shamall.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shamall.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shamall.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}