{"id":621,"date":"2007-10-10T09:42:53","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T09:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=621"},"modified":"2007-10-10T09:42:53","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T09:42:53","slug":"first_impressio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/10\/first_impressio.html","title":{"rendered":"First Impression: Band of Horses &#8220;Cease to Begin&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s really great.  I loved their first album but this definitely takes things up a few notches.  Melodic and intense.  Some songs are what I imagine Explosions in the Sky would sound like if they added a vocal track.  A couple songs remind me of Pink Floyd, I admit sheepishly (not my fault! I did date Pink Floyd&#8217;s Biggest Fan!).  And there&#8217;s one song with Eagles-esque harmonies (&#8220;Peaceful Easy Feelin'&#8221; type harmonies is what I&#8217;m sayin&#8217;).<br \/>\nTotally love it.<br \/>\nAlthough it seems kinda short.  I want more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s really great. I loved their first album but this definitely takes things up a few notches. Melodic and intense. Some songs are what I imagine Explosions in the Sky would sound like if they added a vocal track. A &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/10\/first_impressio.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":[5,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album","category-listenin","category-tunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","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=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}