{"id":42920,"date":"2016-03-05T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=42920"},"modified":"2016-03-07T11:03:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T17:03:35","slug":"good-morning-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2016\/03\/05\/good-morning-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Morning: Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Good-Morning-Glory-EP-e1457162931833.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42921\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-42921 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Good-Morning-Glory-EP-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Good Morning Glory EP\" width=\"249\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a>From Melbourne, Good Morning is Stefan Blair and Liam Parsons. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solitairerecordings.com\/\">Solitaire<\/a> duo toured the States for the first time this past October for CMJ Music Marathon in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been on personal holidays here before but not as a band\u201d said Blair last fall. Read KJHK\u2019s interview with the band from CMJ <a href=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2015\/10\/16\/cmj-music-marathon-artist-interview-good-morning\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The EP\u2019s opener, \u201cOverslept,\u201d is a juxtaposition of light and dark incorporating dreary-eyed bedroom pop and ominous chord progressions with waning, reverberating vocals that steep to a warped, Radiohead-like arrangement. One of <em>Glory\u2019<\/em>s best tracks and the EP\u2019s second, \u201cCab Deg,\u201d is a catalyst in the six-song set list with bright and playful guitar. The track\u2019s dainty melody sticks and leaves you longing for ultra-violent company. \u201cCab Deb\u201d and \u201cTo Be Won\u201d are the EP\u2019s two singles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo Be Won\u201d is a stripped down, melancholic track fit for a Pedro The Lion record that temporarily strands and suspends the listener to later reassure them with soulful keys and wavering guitar. This EP listens like an LP with smooth, track-to-track tradeoffs\u2014none better than \u201cTo Be Won\u201d into \u201cGive Me Something To Do.\u201d Adorned with sensuous saxophones, \u201cGive Me Something To Do\u201d is Blair and Parsons\u2019 voices brush stroking atop a tinged, nebulous instrumental foundation of guitar, drums and minimal production.<\/p>\n<p>Next, \u201cThe Great Start\u201d dances about slowly and is one of <em>Glory<\/em>\u2019s best tracks vocally and lyrically speaking. The last track, \u201cIn The Way,\u201d starts cheerily then swirls and fades before taking a short, interstellar hiatus into nothingness past the one minute mark eventually straightening back out into steady, sun-dazed rock and pleading vocals. As a whole, the earnest, lo-fi nature of <em>Glory <\/em>speaks to its nostalgic sincerity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended If You Like: Mac Demarco, Pedro The Lion, Chad VanGaalen, Fourth Of July<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended Tracks: 1 (Overslept), 2 (Cab Deg), 4 (Give Me Something To Do)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do Not Play: None<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by Harrison Hipp 03\/05\/16<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The earnest, lo-fi nature of Glory speaks to its nostalgic sincerity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1602,"featured_media":42921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3235,3230,181],"tags":[3751,3750,4584,3749,2639,1004,11,4585],"class_list":["post-42920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-music-reviews","category-new-music-rotation","category-rock-rotation","tag-cmj","tag-cmj-music-marathon-2015","tag-glory","tag-good-morning","tag-harrison-hipp","tag-melbourne","tag-new-music-rotation","tag-solitaire-recordings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Good-Morning-Glory-EP-e1457162931833.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42920","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\/1602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}