{"id":31530,"date":"2014-09-15T13:33:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T18:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=31530"},"modified":"2014-09-15T13:33:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T18:33:06","slug":"blonde-redhead-barragan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2014\/09\/15\/blonde-redhead-barragan\/","title":{"rendered":"Blonde Redhead: Barragan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is interesting to see yet another old shoegaze band heading in a new, more electronic direction.<!--more-->Those familiar with Blonde Redhead\u2019s long career will know that they like to switch things up from album to album. The band has played around with shoegaze until they hit success with <i>23<\/i>. Afterwards, they moved in a minimalist direction with <i>Penny Sparkle<\/i>, leading us up to now with <i>Barragan<\/i>. Gone are the walls of fuzzed guitars and decadent noise, replaced with sleek beats, glass vocals, and enough reverb to get your socks wet. Some songs, like the fantastic \u201cDripping\u201d and \u201cNo More Honey,\u201d have an obvious electropop influence, sounding a bit like a smoother Medicine. Other tunes take a more intimate approach, if not being a little, how to say, sly? I didn\u2019t find the album to be overly stable, some songs fell a bit flat next to those that really took off. \u201cDripping\u201d is so off the handle, it\u2019s not fair to the acoustic numbers. It\u2019s not Blonde Redhead\u2019s best work, but there\u2019s some great songs in here, and it\u2019s interesting to see yet another old shoegaze band heading in a new, more electronic direction.<\/p>\n<p>Reccomended if you like Medicine and Washed Out.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Tracks: &#8220;Dripping,&#8221; No More Honey,&#8221; &#8220;Cat On Tin Roof,&#8221; and &#8220;Penultimo&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by Doug Bybee of September 5, 2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is interesting to see yet another old shoegaze band heading in a new, more electronic direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":31531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3230,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31530","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\/09\/Blonde-Redhead-Barrag\u00e1n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31530","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=31530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}