{"id":49862,"date":"2019-05-20T12:04:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T11:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=49862"},"modified":"2019-05-20T12:04:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T11:04:28","slug":"happy-hollow-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/05\/happy-hollow-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy, Hollow &#8211; &#8216;Flowers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Happy, Hollow, from Austin Texas, come to us with their instantly likeable song, &#8216;Flowers&#8217;. It&#8217;s upbeat and fun, with a 90s sound that is impossible to not bob about to. In fact, it&#8217;s difficult to type this because I&#8217;m bobbing so much.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Random Ad stuff --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"3107208401\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2076862002005673\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Jordan Raines and Virginia Haladyna they found in each other an instant love of both music and each other, and with\u00a0Will Howell on drums and Rodrigo Cortes on bass, they came together to form Happy, Hollow, with their signature brand of heartfelt, alt-rock. Less hollow, more happy.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Flowers&#8217; is the first single from their debut record, and comes with a gorgeous music video, showcasing the band in stark white room, surrounded by petals on the floor. There&#8217;s some psych elements in the lighting, and a pi\u00f1ata that the band members each in turn try to smash. It calls to mind the songs of Wilson Phillips, with that sort of airy vibe that characterised their sound.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Flowers&#8217; is a love song, nothing more nothing less. And why does it need to be any more! Too many songs try to add side bets about angst and torment and anguish; sometimes it should just be enough to show people in love, and being happy with it. The band holds romantic love up as the perfect ideal: it might not be everyone&#8217;s, but it works for them and hey, it works for me too.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Check out Happy, Hollow on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.happyhollowband.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official website<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GnLisQcKQDE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy, Hollow, from Austin Texas, come to us with their instantly likeable song, &#8216;Flowers&#8217;. It&#8217;s upbeat and fun, with a 90s sound that is impossible to not bob about to. In fact, it&#8217;s difficult to type this because I&#8217;m bobbing so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":49891,"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":[7,9,640],"tags":[19553,3002,1724,21334,5146,77,370,1945,617,81,3333],"class_list":["post-49862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-videos","tag-alt-pop-2","tag-austin","tag-flowers","tag-happy-hollow","tag-love-song","tag-new-release","tag-new-single","tag-new-video","tag-texas","tag-video","tag-wilson-phillips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-cYe","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36740,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/06\/tiny-fighter-hollow-talk\/","url_meta":{"origin":49862,"position":0},"title":"Tiny Fighter &#8211; &#8216;Hollow Talk&#8217;","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"12\/06\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Stockholm-based indie-pop duo Tiny Fighter had a breakthrough with the video for their song, 'New Century', introducing them to a worldwide audience via the dreamlike clip shot on 360 degree camera. 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