{"id":36721,"date":"2015-09-09T12:09:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T17:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=36721"},"modified":"2015-12-01T01:08:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T07:08:57","slug":"the-arcs-yours-dreamily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2015\/09\/09\/the-arcs-yours-dreamily\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arcs: Yours, Dreamily,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium alignright wp-image-36722\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/the-arcs-yours-dreamily-album-cover-art.jpg\" alt=\"the-arcs-yours-dreamily-album-cover-art\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/the-arcs-yours-dreamily-album-cover-art.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/the-arcs-yours-dreamily-album-cover-art-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/the-arcs-yours-dreamily-album-cover-art-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Inconsistency seems to be in vogue. At least with Dan Auerbach. His latest project, The Arcs, is an eclectic mix of players ranging from Leon Michels (for you neo-soul fans) and Richard Swift of the Shins. That said, <em>Yours, Dreamily,<\/em> is more or less the follow up album to <em>Brothers<\/em> if <em>El Camino<\/em> was more about psych and soul than pop \u2013 still just as predictable, but a lot more fun as a result. Some tracks on here are fantastic takes on western psych and soul. \u201cStay in My Corner\u201d is classy as hell, with a refrain fresh with longing. The single \u201cOutta My Mind\u201d is a schizophrenic effort, equal parts innovative production and vanilla verse structure.<\/p>\n<p>Black Keys fans will find a lot to love about this album in the style of <em>Attack &amp; Release<\/em> and <em>Brothers<\/em> but the album as a whole suffers from the rushed effort (two weeks over four studios). Tracks like \u201cPut A Flower in Your Pocket\u201d espouse a lyrical laziness and philia for fuzz as to be disturbing. Look, it\u2019s not a bad album by any means but if Auerbach wanted a new avenue for his music, he may have wanted to take more of a back seat. As it stands, this is a Black Keys album with some minor tweaks and post-production frills.<\/p>\n<p>On a more generous note, the efforts at neo-soul are nuanced and well produced (not surprising considering the band members). If you are a fan of the genre this album may hold some interesting promise for you.<\/p>\n<p>DJ\u2019s interested in spinning up <em>Yours, Dreamily,<\/em> should be fine for the most part. Like most Auerbach projects the album has an even mix of psych-fuzz rockers and stripped down simpler fair.<br \/>\n<b><br \/>\nRecommended If You Like: The Black Keys, The Heavy, Paloma Faith<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Recommended Tracks: 2, 6, 10, 11, 14<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Do Not Play: 12<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Written by Matthew Kay on 09\/09\/15 <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Auerbach of Black Keys fame, dips into neo-soul and western psych.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5984,"featured_media":36722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3235,3230,181],"tags":[1643,3386,3468,3469,3465,3466],"class_list":["post-36721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-music-reviews","category-new-music-rotation","category-rock-rotation","tag-blues","tag-matthew-kay","tag-neo-soul","tag-psych","tag-the-arcs","tag-yours-dreamily"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/the-arcs-yours-dreamily-album-cover-art.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36721","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\/5984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}