{"id":66362,"date":"2020-11-23T13:59:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T13:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=66362"},"modified":"2020-11-23T13:59:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T13:59:02","slug":"ziggy-alberts-shines-with-heartbeat-announces-upcoming-album-searching-for-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/11\/ziggy-alberts-shines-with-heartbeat-announces-upcoming-album-searching-for-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Ziggy Alberts Shines With &#8216;heartbeat&#8217;, Announces Upcoming Album, &#8216;searching for freedom&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ziggy Alberts has shared his new single \u2018heartbeat\u2019, which is taken from his upcoming album \u2018searching for freedom.\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With support from the likes of Billboard and Clash X in the UK, his soulful voice will be well-received by fans of Dermot Kennedy and Jack Savoretti, both of whom connect with their audiences through honest songwriting \u2013 something which Ziggy Alberts has absolutely achieved with \u2018heartbeat\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The melodic acoustic guitar is reminiscent of Australian singer-songwriter Xavier Rudd with its opulent tone and lyrical exploration as he delves into the themes of love, friendship and loss all within three minutes and forty two seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overall, \u2018heartbeat\u2019 is a familiar friend to his established fanbase and a resilient introduction to the uninitiated and is the perfect taster for the album release.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xWj1X0u66v8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ziggy Alberts has shared his new single \u2018heartbeat\u2019, which is taken from his upcoming album \u2018searching for freedom.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":66363,"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":[7,9,21445,21446,640],"tags":[111,11882,144,77,370,18471,116,26467,10677,81,26466],"class_list":["post-66362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-reviews","category-single-reviews","category-videos","tag-album","tag-heartbeat","tag-new-album","tag-new-release","tag-new-single","tag-polly-havelock","tag-review","tag-searching-for-freedom","tag-single-review","tag-video","tag-ziggy-alberts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-hgm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":70527,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2021\/07\/ziggy-alberts-shows-off-his-storytelling-talents-on-circus\/","url_meta":{"origin":66362,"position":0},"title":"Ziggy Alberts Shows Off His Storytelling Talents On \u2018circus\u2019","author":"Polly Havelock","date":"20\/07\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"It takes a certain kind of poetic mind to write a song \u201cabout lions and elephants\u201d which is actually about so much more than that. 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