{"id":37526,"date":"2015-09-24T18:33:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T23:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=37526"},"modified":"2017-10-24T15:44:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T20:44:28","slug":"fidlar-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2015\/09\/24\/fidlar-too\/","title":{"rendered":"FIDLAR: Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium alignright wp-image-37527\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/FIDLAR-2015-Too_cover-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"FIDLAR-2015-Too_cover-300x300\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/FIDLAR-2015-Too_cover-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/FIDLAR-2015-Too_cover-300x300-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/FIDLAR-2015-Too_cover-300x300-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer. That&#8217;s essentially what FIDLAR&#8217;s latest album is\u2014an ode to beer. It&#8217;s silly, in-your-face, watered down punk that sort of makes you feel like shit. Too is a fun album because it&#8217;s upbeat, danceable, easy to sing along to, and is generally accessible. But on the other hand, there are only so many songs about getting black out drunk that can be on a single album without seeming stale.<\/p>\n<p>Considering that FIDLAR&#8217;s debut album was mostly about beer (and included the song Cheap Beer), their second comes off as tired and unoriginal thematically. Maybe I&#8217;m naive in expecting a slightly more polished\/mature album from FIDLAR, and while there were a couple standout songs, it&#8217;s mostly a repeat of their debut. Tracks 7 and 4 are the best in my opinion, but track 1 (the single) isn&#8217;t terrible either.<br \/>\n<b><br \/>\nRecommended If You Like: Wavves, Bass Drum of Death, Ty Segall, Jacuzzi Boys, anything on Burger Records<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Recommended Tracks: 7! (Drone), 4 (Why Generation), 1 (40oz on Repeat), 3 (West Coast)<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Do Not Play: 5 (Sober), 6 (Leave Me Alone), 11 (Bad Medicine), 12 (Bad Habits)<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Written by Caroline Roe on 09\/23\/15 <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second album from Los Angeles punks FIDLAR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":37527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3235,3230,181],"tags":[2951,2943,3588],"class_list":["post-37526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-music-reviews","category-new-music-rotation","category-rock-rotation","tag-caroline-roe","tag-fidlar","tag-too"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/FIDLAR-2015-Too_cover-300x300.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37526","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}