{"id":64699,"date":"2020-08-25T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T12:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=64699"},"modified":"2020-08-25T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T12:26:10","slug":"jonny-ong-releases-the-unique-sounding-chloe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/08\/jonny-ong-releases-the-unique-sounding-chloe\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonny Ong Releases The Unique-Sounding &#8216;Chloe&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Jonny Ong is a man of intrigue. Melding his Singaporean roots with Westernised song structures and psychedelic influences, Ong is unlike anything else on the musical horizon right now.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nowhere is this more apparent than on latest release, \u2018Chloe\u2019. A venomous tale of betrayal, Ong uses the metaphor of a snake to compare an old friend to the cunning and backstabbing motif of a serpent. The song is snakelike as well in its intrigue and psychedelic nature, sliding along a smooth vocal line before biting you in the neck during the onslaught of the acid freakout in the middle 8.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A treat for the full version of the song alone, the middle 8 incorporates a wash of psychedelic synths and neo-soul influenced trumpets to complete the circle of Jonny Ong\u2019s melting pot of sounds and styles. It elevates the song to something truly special, and even without this section, the song is a feast for the ears &#8211; from Ong\u2019s powerful and stark vocal to the smooth jazz-rock of the accompaniment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Chloe\u2019 comes hot on the heels of previous critically acclaimed singles \u2018Isolation\u2019 and \u2018Fools\u2019, which see him reviving the psychedelic genre with innovative techniques, arrangements and writing styles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Chloe\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/4xQCw0tROP1ObgYnw3lTko?si=bhkyLjUbQ5u_efsAnxF9fQ&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonny Ong is a man of intrigue. Melding his Singaporean roots with Westernised song structures and psychedelic influences, Ong is unlike anything else on the musical horizon right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":64700,"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":[25959,24776,77,370,18471,116,7757,10677],"class_list":["post-64699","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-chloe","tag-jonny-ong","tag-new-release","tag-new-single","tag-polly-havelock","tag-review","tag-singapore","tag-single-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-gPx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":65185,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/09\/jonny-ong-releases-tripped-out-animated-music-video-for-chloe\/","url_meta":{"origin":64699,"position":0},"title":"Jonny Ong Releases Tripped-Out Animated Music Video For &#8216;Chloe&#8217;","author":"Polly Havelock","date":"25\/09\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Jonny Ong is back with an unveiling of his latest visual adventure - an animated video for his hazy psychedelic anthem, 'Chloe'.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0435.jpeg?fit=427%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":62739,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/06\/jonny-ongs-fools-sees-a-maturation-in-his-sound-already\/","url_meta":{"origin":64699,"position":1},"title":"Jonny Ong&#8217;s &#8216;Fools&#8217; 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