{"id":82227,"date":"2014-07-10T09:02:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T13:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frostclick.com\/wp\/?p=82227"},"modified":"2014-07-07T11:18:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T15:18:55","slug":"ben-rector-ben-rector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frostclick.com\/wp\/index.php\/2014\/07\/10\/ben-rector-ben-rector\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Rector: Ben Rector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, underrated is good. It gives the artist more leeway to showcase his talents and let the public judge him based on that alone.<\/p>\n<p>Such is the case with the talented<strong> Ben Rector<\/strong>, who &#8212; I&#8217;ll shamefully admit &#8212; I didn&#8217;t know until a few moments ago. Upon browsing his bio and his discography, dude&#8217;s pretty much made, providing some of his compositions as soundtracks to hit TV series.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>However, the bulk of the &#8220;eureka!&#8221; moment belongs to the elation of listening to his Noisetrade sampler, which collects chosen tracks from 2008&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Songs That Duke Wrote\u00a0<\/em>and 2010&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Into The Morning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WzJDPqeP6zw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Parts Jason Mraz and The Fray with a whole lot of piano thrown in, Ben is one of the better musical products of the past decade. As soon as the neo-soul jam &#8220;The Beat&#8221; rolls in, everyone might as well grab their hairbrushes for one sing-along party.<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t help but be partial, though, to &#8220;The Feeling,&#8221; which exemplifies the pinnacle of feel-good, piano-driven pop.<\/p>\n<p>Oh wait, the sampler is.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.noisetrade.com\/service\/widgetv2\/fdb328ab-dc2f-4e8a-a665-2bd532201155\" width=\"300\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Track listing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. The Beat<br \/>\n2. The Kill<br \/>\n3. When A Heart Breaks<br \/>\n4. The Feeling<br \/>\n5. White Dress<br \/>\n6. After All<br \/>\n7. Hank<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benrectormusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ben Rector&#8217;s official site<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/benrector\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ben Rector&#8217;s Facebook page<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benrector\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ben Rector&#8217;s Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"frost-3512990278\" class=\"gas_fallback-ad_98517--placement_102160\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-9536139424546116\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9536139424546116\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5501023798\" \ndata-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, underrated is good. It gives the artist more leeway to showcase his talents and let the public judge him based on that alone.<\/p>\n<p>Such is the case with the talented Ben Rector, who \u2014 I\u2019ll shamefully admit \u2014 I didn\u2019t know until a few moments ago. Upon browsing his bio and his discography, dude\u2019s pretty much made, providing some of his compositions as soundtracks to hit TV series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8308,"featured_media":83844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,292,293,2705],"tags":[15607,12387,81],"class_list":["post-82227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-pop-music-audio","category-pop-rock","category-soul-audio","tag-ben-rector","tag-neo-soul","tag-pop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.frostclick.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/benstereo.jpg?fit=360%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pjw7s-lof","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frostclick.com\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frostclick.com\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frostclick.com\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frostclick.com\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frostclick.com\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.frostclick.com\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frostclick.com\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frostclick.com\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frostclick.com\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frostclick.com\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}