{"id":16906,"date":"2017-01-20T17:43:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T17:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=16906"},"modified":"2019-09-05T18:34:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T17:34:57","slug":"artist-of-the-month-ronika-lose-my-cool-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/artist-of-the-month-ronika-lose-my-cool-review\/","title":{"rendered":"ARTIST OF THE MONTH: RONIKA &#8211; &#8216;Lose My Cool&#8217; &#8211; Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay guys &#8211; this is a bit awks. In June 2014, I called <\/span><a href=\"\"><b>RONIKA\u2019s<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> debut album \u201cone of the best Pop albums ever made\u201d (<a href=\"\"><strong>PROOF<\/strong><\/a>)&#8230; and this one&#8217;s even better!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right &#8211; lets get the lame pun I\u2019m quite proud of out of the way. Song numero uno &#8211; \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Principle\u2019<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will indeed make you \u201close your cool\u201d&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*tumbleweed*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OKAY. Lame puns aside, it\u2019s true. Lead single, and proper banger &#8211; &#8220;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Principle&#8221;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0has one of the funkiest little grooves we\u2019ve ever heard. Grabs you from the second it kicks in and don\u2019t let go till you\u2019re shaking your sass all over the dancefloor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just one song later and we\u2019re transported &#8211; slow jamz babyyyyy. \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Late Night Radio<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d feat <\/span><b>Swisha<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> almost has a <\/span><b>Luther Vandross<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> meets 00s RnB vibe about it. Synths that were made to soundtrack those early-morning drives along Miami beaches (we all have those, right?).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dissolve<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d&#8230; well, kinda does what it says on the tin. Somehow through a mix of eclectic electronic bleeps and bloops, this tune seeps into your ear drums and will leave ya feeling a little bit like you\u2019re dissolving into thin air. Probs don\u2019t blast this one when you\u2019ve had one too many glasses of Vod&#8230;H20.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Title track \u2018<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lose my Cool\u2019<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is made to get you shaking what ya mama gave ya. A happy slick-bop. And just when you think \u201cjeez, my feet hurt\u201d, \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make Your Move\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> comes on will have ya sliding your way right back. Just no shuffling this time, yeah?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LMC is a proper eclectic album. Don\u2019t get us wrong &#8211; this album was pretty much created to give you the best dance party of your life. But &#8211; if in your face bangers aren\u2019t your thing, there\u2019s plenty of straight-up ace Pop songs to soothe your catchy cravings. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019d advise you start working on your choreography now. Ron\u2019s returning to <a href=\"\"><strong>Bodega<\/strong><\/a> in June to perform these beauties for ya. Dont\u2019 wanna let her\u2026 erm, \u201close her cool\u2019 do ya?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sorry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yours in Love of New Music,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sam Nahirny x<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>PS <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Ya can buy the sexeh vinyl straight from Ron\u2019s shop <\/span><a href=\"\"><b>HERE<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and get it on iTunes <\/span><a href=\"\"><b>HERE<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay guys &#8211; this is a bit awks. In June 2014, I called RONIKA\u2019s debut album \u201cone of the best Pop albums ever made\u201d (PROOF)&#8230; and this one&#8217;s even better! Right &#8211; lets get the lame pun I\u2019m quite proud of out of the way. Song numero uno &#8211; \u201cPrinciple\u2019 will indeed make you \u201close&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"theme-button-text wvc-button wvc-button-size-xs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/artist-of-the-month-ronika-lose-my-cool-review\/\"><small class=\"wvc-button-background-fill\"><\/small><span>Continue reading<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,15],"tags":[1659,1657,129,191,46,1658],"class_list":{"0":"post-16906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-artist-of-the-month","8":"category-reviews","9":"tag-dissolve","10":"tag-lose-my-cool","11":"tag-nottingham","12":"tag-pop","13":"tag-ronika","14":"tag-second-album","15":"entry-post-skin-dark","16":"entry","17":"clearfix","18":"entry-grid","19":"entry-columns-default","20":"entry-post-module-layout-fullwidth","21":"thumbnail-color-tone-dark","22":"entry-post","24":"entry-post-grid"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16906"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20718,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16906\/revisions\/20718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}