{"id":43166,"date":"2016-03-09T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T02:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=43166"},"modified":"2016-03-09T20:29:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T02:29:23","slug":"raymond-good-girls-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2016\/03\/09\/raymond-good-girls-bad-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Raymond: Good Girls, Bad News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Good-Girls-Bad-News-EP-e1457576484546.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43173\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-43173 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Good-Girls-Bad-News-EP-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Good Girls, Bad News EP\" width=\"255\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a>Good Girls, Bad News\u00a0<\/em>is the debut solo EP from Lawrence singer\/rapper, <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/raymondvividzebra\">Raymond<\/a>. Produced by Bradly Bones, a local musician and guitarist for <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/toughies\">Toughies<\/a>, this four-track EP combines hip-hop and electronic elements found in the work of the <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/vividzebra\">Vivid Zebra<\/a> collective coupled with Raymond&#8217;s pop and R&amp;B presence. Despite its brevity,\u00a0<em>Good Girls, Bad News\u00a0<\/em>is a repeat cover-to-cover listen and the first of more projects to come as Raymond is currently working on future releases with Bradly Bones and <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/alccalh\">Alccalh<\/a> of Vivid Zebra.<\/p>\n<p>The EP begins with soulful keys on the bittersweet introduction, &#8220;Close Call,&#8221; and Raymond confesses &#8220;I didn&#8217;t mean all the things I said \/ and maybe you didn&#8217;t mean all the things you did.&#8221; The track bleeds seamlessly into a more dynamic &#8220;F*ck &#8216;Em&#8221; as the EP gradually inclines. With the first half of <em>Good Girls, Bad News\u00a0<\/em>largely of the soul, down-tempo variety, &#8220;Low&#8221; takes the EP to another level while maintaining the same stylistic voice. Hip-hop influences are most prominent here as Raymond sensually spells out with fine falsetto &#8220;You&#8217;re not the type to tell \/ let&#8217;s keep it on the low down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The project finishes on &#8220;Midnight,&#8221; with echoing R&amp;B instrumentals and washed out vocals. &#8220;I&#8217;m caught in a dream world \/ I&#8217;m running on empty \/ just look in the mirror and you&#8217;ll see that you miss me&#8221; Raymond sings before ethereally fading away until he&#8217;s to be heard from next.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended If You Like: Vivid Zebra, Bradly Bones, Alccalh, Tione, LION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended Tracks: 3 (Low), 4 (Midnight), 2 (F*ck &#8216;Em), 1 (Close Call)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do Not Play: None<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by Harrison Hipp on 03\/09\/16<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This four-track EP combines hip-hop and electronic elements found in the work of the Vivid Zebra collective coupled with Raymond&#8217;s pop and R&#038;B presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1602,"featured_media":43173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,48,4,3235,3230],"tags":[4625,4626,2639,2137,89,4622,4623,2990,4624],"class_list":["post-43166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hopelectronic-rotation","category-local-music","category-music","category-music-reviews","category-new-music-rotation","tag-bradly-bones","tag-good-girls-bad-news","tag-harrison-hipp","tag-lfk","tag-local-music-2","tag-raymond","tag-spencer-raymond","tag-toughies","tag-vivid-zebra"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Good-Girls-Bad-News-EP-e1457576484546.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43166","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=43166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}