{"id":507,"date":"2007-07-17T08:46:18","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T08:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=507"},"modified":"2011-10-29T12:48:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T17:48:42","slug":"pitchfork_menom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/07\/pitchfork_menom.html","title":{"rendered":"Pitchfork: Menomena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tracy<\/strong>: I wasn&#8217;t into it. I would say I thought the songs were sort of interesting but I didn&#8217;t think they were well executed. For example, I thought they were very lousy singers and for a sparse arrangement where you&#8217;re highlighting vocals you need more. So I didn&#8217;t think they were good enough for what they set out to do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jenn<\/strong>: I really liked them. They have sort of an unexpected sound. They build until the point where I think they&#8217;re gonna blow up, but instead they drop out for a few seconds. It&#8217;s interesting but hard to dance to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carlos<\/strong>:  I liked them.  They weren&#8217;t conventional sounding, which was nice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duff<\/strong>:   The music was way too sparse for me. They need to add another member who plays a &#8220;filler&#8221; instrument.  They all shared vocals but at least two of the three vocalists had (to put it nicely) VERY WEAK voices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracy: I wasn&#8217;t into it. I would say I thought the songs were sort of interesting but I didn&#8217;t think they were well executed. For example, I thought they were very lousy singers and for a sparse arrangement where you&#8217;re &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/07\/pitchfork_menom.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live","category-tunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/2084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}