{"id":480458,"date":"2019-01-04T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=774904"},"modified":"2019-01-04T07:00:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T14:00:38","slug":"hear-dangelos-brooding-red-dead-redemption-2-song-unshaken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/hear-dangelos-brooding-red-dead-redemption-2-song-unshaken\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear D\u2019Angelo\u2019s Brooding \u2018Red Dead Redemption 2\u2019 Song \u2018Unshaken\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/shutterstock_5042067v.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>D\u2019Angelo officially released his meditative new song, \u201cUnshaken,\u201d which appears on the soundtrack of Rockstar video game <em>Red Dead Redemption 2<\/em>. The track, now available on streaming services, marks the soul singer\u2019s first release since his third LP, 2014\u2019s <em>Black Messiah<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The vocalist explores his lower register throughout, crooning bleak imagery over a percussive groove. \u201cDid I hear a thunder? Did I hear you break?\u201d he sings. \u201cI can\u2019t quite remember just what guided me this way.\u201d On the chorus, he pleads, \u201cMay I stand unshaken\/ Amid, amidst a crashing world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The blockbuster Western action-adventure game also features music from Willie Nelson, Queens of the Stone Age\u2019s Josh Homme, Nas, and Rhiannon Giddens. Woody Jackson\u2019s score includes contributions from Arca, Daniel Lanois, Colin Stetson and Queens of the Stone Age drummer Jon Theodore.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the game\u2019s musical contributors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/the-making-of-red-dead-redemption-2-soundtrack-766210\/\">spoke to <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> for a recent piece observing the soundtrack\u2019s wide appeal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s interesting to me is the amount of traction we\u2019re getting \u2014 all of this material has really caught on on the internet,\u201d Lanois said. \u201cThese songs are being ripped from the game and they\u2019re on YouTube everywhere. There are Japanese pianists doing classical versions of the song I wrote with Rhiannon [Giddens]. I haven\u2019t felt this kind of fever since the late Eighties, when I was knocking it out of the park [producing] Peter Gabriel and U2!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/dangelo-red-dead-redemption-2-unshaken-774904\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D\u2019Angelo officially released his meditative new song, \u201cUnshaken,\u201d which appears on the soundtrack of Rockstar video game Red Dead Redemption 2. The track, now available on streaming services, marks the soul singer\u2019s first release since his third LP, 2014\u2019s Black Messiah. The vocalist explores his lower register throughout, crooning bleak imagery over a percussive groove. 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