{"id":33810,"date":"2015-04-12T21:51:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T02:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=33810"},"modified":"2015-04-12T21:51:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T02:51:28","slug":"ghastly-menace-songs-of-ghastly-menace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2015\/04\/12\/ghastly-menace-songs-of-ghastly-menace\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghastly Menace: Songs Of Ghastly Menace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium alignright wp-image-33811\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ghastly-menace_songs-of-ghastly-menace-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"ghastly-menace_songs-of-ghastly-menace\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ghastly-menace_songs-of-ghastly-menace.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ghastly-menace_songs-of-ghastly-menace-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ghastly-menace_songs-of-ghastly-menace-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Songs of Ghastly Menace is the debut album for the Chicago-based band Ghastly Menace. There\u2019s not much to say here other than this is a very sweet album with beautiful melodies and ethereal vocals. It sounds like it would be the soundtrack to an independent film starring Joseph Gordon Levitt or Elijah Wood or some twee hipster man like that. However, a few songs go beyond the twee and pack some punch, like \u201cReal Life\u201d\u2014screaming lyrics, feedback, and strong drums. A lot of the songs sound the same, but there are a few standouts. Overall, not bad. Bonus: they\u2019re playing at Middle of the Map 2015 if you feel inclined to check them out.<br \/>\n<b><br \/>\nRecommended If You Like: Fleet Foxes, Noah and the Whale, Devotchka, She and Him<br \/>\nRecommended Tracks: 4 (While You&#8217;re Here), 2 (Closing), 6 (Real Life)<br \/>\nDo Not Play: None<br \/>\nWritten by Caroline Roe on 04\/11\/2015 <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The debut album from Chicago&#8217;s Ghastly Menace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":33811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[2951,2952,2953],"class_list":["post-33810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rock-rotation","tag-caroline-roe","tag-ghastly-menace","tag-songs-of-ghastly-menace"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ghastly-menace_songs-of-ghastly-menace.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33810","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=33810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}