{"id":32353,"date":"2014-11-17T12:24:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T18:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=32353"},"modified":"2014-11-17T12:24:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T18:24:08","slug":"johnny-marr-playland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2014\/11\/17\/johnny-marr-playland\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Marr: Playland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In his second solo studio album, former Smiths member Johnny Marr provides listeners with a well made if not somewhat familiar listen.<\/p>\n<p>While some of the tracks seem overproduced, the album truly works when it feels like Marr is stripped down to his wonderful guitar playing on tracks such as \u201cDynamo\u201d and \u201c25 Hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The album essentially plays like a classic Smiths album mixing pop and rock music effectively with a higher amount of production that is evident on tracks like the synth heavy \u201cEasy Money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are tracks like \u201cEasy Money\u201d that don\u2019t really work then there are some extremely good quality tracks on the album including the best tracks \u201cCandidate\u201d and \u201cThe Trap.\u201d These songs feel right at home in Marr\u2019s catalogue; rather than some of the other tracks that feel like Marr is trying to modernize his music for today\u2019s alternative crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Marr has true talent and while this album might not be the best of his work, there is still a lot to listen for on this new album.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended if you like: The Smiths, Bob Mould<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Tracks: &#8220;Dynamo,&#8221; &#8220;Candidate,&#8221; &#8220;25 Hours,&#8221; and &#8220;The Trap&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by Andrew Zeserman on November 7th, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":32354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3230,181],"tags":[2497,2495,2496],"class_list":["post-32353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-music-rotation","category-rock-rotation","tag-andrew-zeserman","tag-johnny-marr","tag-playland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Playland-packshot.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32353","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=32353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}