{"id":31115,"date":"2014-06-23T09:10:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T14:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=31115"},"modified":"2014-06-23T09:10:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T14:10:39","slug":"wye-oak-shriek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2014\/06\/23\/wye-oak-shriek\/","title":{"rendered":"Wye Oak&#8211;Shriek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The duo has taken their touches of dreaminess and built an electronic house out of it!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nIf I didn\u2019t know any better, I wouldn\u2019t believe you if you told me <i>Shriek<\/i> is actually Wye Oak\u2019s fifth album. Wye Oak struck indie success with their previous album <i>Civilian<\/i> a couple years ago, but have moved in a completely different direction here. Gone are the traditional instruments and their entire folky aesthetic, basically the whole indiefolkrock shebang. Instead the duo has taken their touches of dreaminess and built an electronic house out of it. <i>Shriek<\/i> is entirely synthesizers, drums, and Jenny Wasner\u2019s dreamy vocals, all neatly arranged and well done. The album swirls, plinks, and plunks along. Some songs have a stong 80s synthpop influence, such as \u201cDespicable Animal\u201d with its DX7 Rhodes or \u201cLogic of Color\u201d with its Oberheim plunks. There\u2019s a lot of synthpop coming out these days, but <i>Shriek<\/i> manages to cut above the rest through the combination of a hybrid of unique influences and an emphasis on rhythm in the melodies. There\u2019s hardly a held-out lead note in any track and it\u2019s very catching. Tracks like \u201cThe Tower\u201d and \u201cShriek\u201d are composed almost entirely of rhythmic pings and pongs. Synths can easily get stale, but Wye Oak avoids most of the pitfalls. With a handful of great tracks, <i>Shriek<\/i> is a solid 41 minutes of plonky plinky electronic dreampop that\u2019s an unusally unique animal in a same-sound breed. The duo\u2019s complete overhaul feels completely worthwhile, with the only thing to regret being that I didn\u2019t see them when they were in town.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended if you like <\/strong>moodier, dreamier versions of groups like Painted Palms or Gardens &amp; Villa<\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Doug Bybee on 6\/11\/14<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The duo has taken their touches of dreaminess and built an electronic house out of it!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":971,"featured_media":31124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3230,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-music-rotation","category-rock-rotation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Unknown-52.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}