{"id":24907,"date":"2016-10-17T12:08:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T16:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=24907"},"modified":"2016-10-17T12:22:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T16:22:15","slug":"blonde-redhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=24907","title":{"rendered":"Blonde Redhead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=wp-caption>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blonde_redhead.jpg\"><br \/>\niPhone\n<\/p>\n<p>Saw an old favorite, Blonde Redhead, at Duke this past weekend. I love their first three records, which are all pretty and noisy like a more-melodic Sonic Youth. On those early records, they were fairly minimalist: guitars, bass, drums, with vocals shared by the Japanese Kazu Makino and Italian Amedeo Pace. They sing in English, but their accents and distinctive (non-native?) phrasing give the songs an other-worldly vibe.<\/p>\n<p>On this current tour, they're playing their sixth record, <i>Misery Is a Butterfly<\/i>, start to finish. It's a much mellower record than those early ones; songs are all slow, minor key, dream-like. And it's much more lushly produced; instead of drums and angry dissonant guitars, there are strings and keyboards and drum machines. And so, to make this work live, they're touring with a string quintet (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acmemusic.org\/shows\">ACME<\/a>). It worked really well. Sounded great.<\/p>\n<p>They played the full album as advertised, almost; they skipped my favorite song on the record, the last song, <i>Equus<\/i>. That's the only song on the record that rocks very much. Instead, they played a few very new songs.<\/p>\n<p>So, I'm glad I finally got to see them. But I wish I hadn't skipped seeing them a decade ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iPhone Saw an old favorite, Blonde Redhead, at Duke this past weekend. I love their first three records, which are all pretty and noisy like a more-melodic Sonic Youth. On those early records, they were fairly minimalist: guitars, bass, drums, with vocals shared by the Japanese Kazu Makino and Italian Amedeo Pace. They sing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24909,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24907\/revisions\/24909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}