{"id":5877,"date":"2013-11-10T18:38:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T23:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catchingfireflies.com\/blog\/?p=5877"},"modified":"2016-03-27T16:14:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T20:14:17","slug":"compliment-your-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/compliment-your-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"compliment your soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a little spotify radio, I recently discovered this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sBWnTzEhpbc\" target=\"_blank\">lovely tune<\/a> by British singer-songwriter Dan Croll.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9838 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/dan-croll-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/dan-croll-1.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/dan-croll-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/blogs\/1000words\/2013\/08\/photos-dan-croll---london-england.html\" target=\"_blank\">review<\/a> reads, &#8220;Weaving elements of folk with electro, he created upbeat but all laid-back melodies. Influenced by the mixture of sounds, the multi-instrumentalist (he plays everything from guitar to drums to trumpet and piano) is all about the contradictory. A trained musician, Croll studied at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts founded by Sir Paul McCartney.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sBWnTzEhpbc?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Croll\u2019s sound is highly layered\u2014it\u2019s James Blake and Grizzly Bear meet Beirut and Bon Iver. He effortlessly weaves eclectic, opposing sounds to create something new. This Liverpool native has one foot in the folk genre and the other in the world of electro-pop, and the ever-present psychedelic undercurrent mixed with his charming persona provide endless energy for live performances.&#8221; -Sarah Rowland<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><strong><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Like discovering catchy grooves that you can sing to?\u00a0 Simply<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/catchingfireflies.com\/blog\/get-the-latest-updates-in-your-inbox\/\"> subscribe to this blog<\/a> <span style=\"color: #808000;\">and we\u2019ll email you our latest and greatest music finds.<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"flaresmith\" class=\"feedflare\"><script src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~s\/http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/catchingfireflies\/TyNo?i=http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/compliment-your-soul\/\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div><div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/compliment-your-soul\/\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 944859;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a little spotify radio, I recently discovered this lovely tune by British singer-songwriter Dan Croll. 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This Liverpool native has one foot in the folk genre and the other in the world of electro-pop, and the ever-present psychedelic undercurrent mixed with his charming persona provide endless energy for live performances.&#8221; -Sarah Rowland Like discovering catchy grooves that you can sing to?\u00a0 Simply subscribe to this blog and we\u2019ll email you our latest and greatest music finds.<\/p>\n<script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 944859;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-to-groove-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5877"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9839,"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877\/revisions\/9839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}