{"id":21796,"date":"2018-05-21T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/?p=21796"},"modified":"2018-05-25T09:31:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T14:31:36","slug":"zhus-return-ep-ringos-desert-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/2018\/05\/21\/zhus-return-ep-ringos-desert-pt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"ZHU\u2019s return EP: RINGOS DESERT PT.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ZHU\u2019s music is the kind that always leaves its audience yearning for more. With mysterious productions&nbsp; fitting to the musician himself, ZHU\u2019s style fills a particular niche in the electronic and house genres. From his 2016 debut album GENERATIONWHY, an album with a variety of moods and tempos, we descend into the darkness of the desert in RINGOS DESERT PT.1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some of my personal favorites are \u201cStill Want U\u201d and\u201cDesert Woman.\u201d Featuring Karnaval Blues, \u201cStill Want U\u201d is a wispy and ardent track that chronicles a bad breakup. Songs like these are where I think ZHU really nails the desert aesthetic. The deep bass and ethereal vocals really do give the feeling of wandering through the desert alone, just as the album art depicts. The whispering chants of \u201cDesert Woman\u201d combined with the almost Middle Eastern-esque synth really delivers on the desert vibe as well. It builds until the middle where it falls quiet and ghostly before revitalizing the synths accompanied with a guitar. The album ends with \u201cSave Me\u201d ending with what could only be a cliffhanger as spoken vocals call out for rescue from the storm. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ZHU recently announced his upcoming fall \u201cDUNE\u201d tour. He will not only be delivering his sultry, sizzling EP across the continent, but also 2.5 tons of sand as well (according to a voicemail from his less-than-happy manager). We can only wait until part 2 for the conclusion to RINGOS DESERT.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed?uri=spotify:album:1VAIQmXGA2BVlpXBrueMnk\" width=\"500\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZHU\u2019s music is the kind that always leaves its audience yearning for more. With mysterious productions&nbsp; fitting to the musician himself, ZHU\u2019s style fills a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":21797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1020,1019,2722],"tags":[1824,1138,1130,2923],"coauthors":[2745],"class_list":["post-21796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ae","category-imsanews","category-reviews","tag-electronic-music","tag-music","tag-review","tag-zhu"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21796"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21817,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21796\/revisions\/21817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21796"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=21796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}