{"id":31183,"date":"2014-06-26T14:45:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T19:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=31183"},"modified":"2014-06-26T14:45:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T19:45:14","slug":"tune-yards-nikki-nack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2014\/06\/26\/tune-yards-nikki-nack\/","title":{"rendered":"tUnE-YArDs &#8212; Nikki Nack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0It\u2019s refreshing to hear such a hard-working, complex, and skilled record, regardless of genre.<\/strong><!--more-->Nikki Nack is the third album by Tune-Yards, also known as Merrill Garbus. Garbus made a big splash with her previous effort, Whokill, and here it is incredibly obvious she has really cut her teeth to better what was already a great album. The first big change is that Garbus has left behind the DIY feel of Whokill in exchange for the super smooth pop dream production featured here. The music is deceptively minimalist, even more so than Garbus\u2019s previous efforts. All the individual instruments, the drums, bass, and various synths sound so busy with their Afro-beat or R&amp;B influenced parts, however the songs are just complex layering of only a handful of these instruments at a time. It\u2019s a true testament to both Garbus\u2019s skills as an arranger, and the album\u2019s ultra-professional production. The lyrics are all incredibly aware too, ranging from self-related issues like on \u201cHey Life\u201d and \u201cFind a New Way\u201d to the more worldly \u201cWater Fountain\u201d and \u201cWait for a Minute\u201d. I have a hard time picking out which tracks I like most, since there\u2019s no real clear standouts, every track is great. It\u2019s refreshing to hear such a hard-working, complex, and skilled record, regardless of genre.. It\u2019s not exactly my cup of tea when it comes to music, but I\u2019d be lying if I said I wasn&#8217;t extremely impressed by what I heard here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended If You Like:<\/strong> St. Vincent, afro-beat or R&amp;B influenced art pop<br \/>\nReviewed by Doug Bybee on 6-18-14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0It\u2019s refreshing to hear such a hard-working, complex, and skilled record, regardless of genre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":31184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3230,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31183","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\/imgres.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31183","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}