{"id":21662,"date":"2016-07-07T11:49:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T10:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=21662"},"modified":"2016-07-07T11:49:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T10:49:24","slug":"scott-beaton-is-no-new-clown-with-beautiful-80s-tinged-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/07\/scott-beaton-is-no-new-clown-with-beautiful-80s-tinged-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Beaton Is No &#8216;New Clown&#8217; With Beautiful 80s Tinged Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21663\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/07\/scott-beaton-is-no-new-clown-with-beautiful-80s-tinged-track\/scott-beaton-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Scott-Beaton-2.png?fit=956%2C990&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"956,990\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Scott Beaton 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Scott-Beaton-2.png?fit=640%2C663&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21663\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Scott-Beaton-2.png?resize=640%2C663&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Scott Beaton 2\" width=\"640\" height=\"663\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>With a beautifully dreamy track that reminds us of the likes of Scritti Politti, comes Scott Beaton and his song, &#8216;New Clown&#8217;.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The\u00a0bass player and vocalist from Glasgow\u00a0band, The Blue Lenas, takes a different direction to that of his band in this solo effort, resulting in\u00a0a trancey, electropop psych funk song that is mesmerising in its lyrical and musical complexity. &#8216;New Clown&#8217; combines\u00a080s stylings with contemporary production techniques, and in all is a beautiful song which demands to be listened to over and over.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Check it out here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F272563568&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;visual=true&#038;show_comments=true&#038;color=false&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Find Scott Beaton online on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottBeaton91\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scottbeatonmusic\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, and his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottbeatonmusic.com\" target=\"_blank\">official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a beautifully dreamy track that reminds us of the likes of Scritti Politti, comes Scott Beaton and his song, &#8216;New Clown&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":21664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[6310,1320,2875,6311,370,226,2721,284,6309,872,4397,442],"class_list":["post-21662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","tag-elecropop","tag-funk","tag-glasgow","tag-new-clown","tag-new-single","tag-pop","tag-psych","tag-scotland","tag-scott-beaton","tag-scottish","tag-the-blue-lenas","tag-trance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-5Do","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22914,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/09\/scott-beaton-didnt-know-in-guitar-led-new-song\/","url_meta":{"origin":21662,"position":0},"title":"Scott Beaton &#8216;Didn&#8217;t Know&#8217; 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