{"id":40155,"date":"2015-12-20T16:21:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T22:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=40155"},"modified":"2015-12-20T16:21:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T22:21:23","slug":"yak-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2015\/12\/20\/yak-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Yak: No"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright wp-image-40156\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Yak-Front-Cover-650.jpg?fit=300%2C300\" alt=\"Yak-Front-Cover-650\" width=\"260\" height=\"260\" \/><em>No<\/em> is one of Third Man Records&#8217; latest EP releases, and it comes from the London group Yak. Yak is is Oliver Burslem, Andy Jones and Elliot Rawson. The second track, &#8220;Alas Salvation,&#8221; has a very White Stripes-like screeching guitar and feedback.\u00a0In this EP, it&#8217;s obvious that the band got the Jack White treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The third and final track, &#8220;Out On A Limb,&#8221; is much more tame, but has a very big and swelling sound that is reminiscent of Radiohead. &#8220;No,&#8221; the title track, is probably the best on this EP. It&#8217;s dark and heavy, but the vocals are borderline falsetto and are a balance between the guitars and instrumentals. It&#8217;s too bad that the <em>No<\/em>\u00a0EP is only three songs because it&#8217;s exceptional.<br \/>\n<b><br \/>\nRecommended If You Like: White Stripes, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Recommended Tracks: 2 (Alas Salvation), 1 (No), 3 (Out on a Limb)<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Do Not Play: None<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Written by Caroline Roe on 12\/16\/15 <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s too bad that the No EP is only three songs because it&#8217;s exceptional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":40156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3235,3230,181],"tags":[2951,1061,4128,4061],"class_list":["post-40155","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-no","tag-third-man-records","tag-yak"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Yak-Front-Cover-650-e1450649959337.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40155","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=40155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}