{"id":11382,"date":"2016-10-11T14:30:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T13:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=11382"},"modified":"2016-10-11T14:32:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T13:32:16","slug":"listen-to-adam-betts-third-single-hero-shit-off-upcoming-debut-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=11382","title":{"rendered":"Listen to Adam Betts&#8217; third single &#8216;Hero Shit&#8217; off upcoming debut album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11384\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adam-Betts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11384\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11384\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adam-Betts.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Jo Bongard\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adam-Betts.jpg 700w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adam-Betts-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Jo Bongard<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Colossal Squid<\/em>, the highly awaited debut album from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adambettsdrums.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Betts<\/a> is nearing its release date and he had already enticed us with two ace singles off it, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=11204\">Drumbones<\/a>\u2019 and \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=11301\">Aneek<\/a>\u2019.<br \/>\nTo get us even more excited, the incredibly talented drummer has shared the awesome and relentless &#8216;Hero Shit&#8217;, also culled from his forthcoming album. \u201c&#8217;Hero Shit&#8217; was me chasing a dumb euphoric feeling summed up by the title! Inspired by a mix of the Rustie&#8217;s sense of energy but as played by a rock band,\u201d explained Betts. \u201cVocal samples are chopped up attempting to sound like a crowd shouting over each other, but rhythmically tied to the drum kit, so there&#8217;s a lot of chaos but it comes together in a way that makes a bit of musical sense.\u201d Listen to it now.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/285995652&amp;color=c41709&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In other related good news, and to celebrate the album&#8217;s release, Adam Betts has announced a <a href=\"http:\/\/servantjazzquarters.com\/events\/adam-betts\/\" target=\"_blank\">launch show<\/a> at London\u2019s Servant\u2019s Jazz Quarters on November 29th.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Colossal Squid<\/em> is out on November 25th via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodandbiscuits.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blood and Biscuits<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colossal Squid, the highly awaited debut album from Adam Betts is nearing its release date and he had already enticed us with two ace singles off it, \u2018Drumbones\u2019 and \u2018Aneek\u2019. To get us even more excited, the incredibly talented drummer has shared the awesome and relentless &#8216;Hero Shit&#8217;, also culled from his forthcoming album. \u201c&#8217;Hero [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1529],"class_list":["post-11382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-adam-betts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11382"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11390,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382\/revisions\/11390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}