{"id":61348,"date":"2020-04-06T13:04:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T12:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=61348"},"modified":"2020-04-06T13:04:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T12:04:23","slug":"the-cry-this-hazy-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/04\/the-cry-this-hazy-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cry &#8211; &#8216;This Hazy Morning&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>With more than a hint of Echo And The Bunnymen (very much reminiscent of &#8216;Pretty In Pink&#8217;), The Cry return with their latest single, &#8216;This Hazy Morning&#8217;, the follow up to their previous release, &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/10\/it-is-at-it-seems-with-new-single-from-the-cry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">It Is As It Seems<\/a>&#8216;, which came out late last year. The Cry will later this year &#8211; all things being equal &#8211; release their first LP since 1990.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It strikes me that a lot of songs being released at the moment bear with them the echo of these unsettled times. It&#8217;s not really possible; many have been written months, if not years, before the current crisis&#8230;and yet, they still have a vibe of apocalyptic times about them &#8211; maybe it&#8217;s the music, maybe it&#8217;s the vocals &#8211; who knows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;This Hazy Morning&#8217;, by The Cry, is yet another of these sorts of songs. It could well be their 80s sound &#8211; which was itself a troubled time &#8211; the earnest vocals and jangly guitars calling into focus an image of someone waking up to a desolate, people-less landscape, and as a result, thinking back another time when things were different. The song is upbeat and positive, and yet there&#8217;s just that something about it that makes me feel as though this would be perfect on the soundtrack for a film about the end of the world. So cheery!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Find The Cry online on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecry.online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Official Website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thecryofficial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/6grgjpIL2vWizmyVA707PH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Check out their music on Dowd Records, which can be found on their <a href=\"https:\/\/dowdrecords.com\/the-cry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dowdrecords\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dowd_records\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DowdRecords\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_14991\"  width=\"640\" height=\"480\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"480\"  data-relstop=\"1\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FFQ0_PqjsmA?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/essentiallypop.com&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=1&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"This Hazy Morning\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/FFQ0_PqjsmA\/maxresdefault.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With more than a hint of Echo And The Bunnymen (very much reminiscent of &#8216;Pretty In Pink&#8217;), The Cry return with their latest single, &#8216;This Hazy Morning&#8217;, the follow up to their previous release, &#8216;It Is As It Seems&#8217;, which came out late last year. The Cry will later this year &#8211; all things being equal &#8211; release their first LP since 1990.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":61354,"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":[7,9,21453,21445,21446],"tags":[11720,144,77,370,116,10677,23327,24775],"class_list":["post-61348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-new-singles","category-reviews","category-single-reviews","tag-lisa-hafey","tag-new-album","tag-new-release","tag-new-single","tag-review","tag-single-review","tag-the-cry","tag-this-hazy-morning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-fXu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36911,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/06\/matt-tarka-vision-hazy\/","url_meta":{"origin":61348,"position":0},"title":"Matt Tarka &#8211; &#8216;Vision Hazy&#8217;","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"15\/06\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, folk-rock artist Matt Tarka writes songs which are honest and authentic. 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