{"id":28683,"date":"2018-12-14T14:55:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T19:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=28683"},"modified":"2018-12-21T10:11:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T15:11:24","slug":"listening-to-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=28683","title":{"rendered":"Listening To&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><b>Nod &#8211; So Much Tonight<\/b>. Nod is always hard to explain. The best I can do is: Can, Pavement&#8217;s early EPs and The Stooges but without angst or ego. They&#8217;re so loose and ragged it seems like they&#8217;re always on the verge of falling apart. But there are enough hooks in their songs (rusty, broken, twisted hooks) to keep me listening. And, after something like 25 years, they put out this record which sounds exactly like a Nod record, but is still fresh and interesting.<br \/>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" title=\"Go for a Ride\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_9esgt2hjsog\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/9esgt2hjsog\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9esgt2hjsog\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT4M53S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2018-09-27T16:38:17Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_9esgt2hjsog\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/9esgt2hjsog\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Go for a Ride<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9esgt2hjsog\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/9esgt2hjsog\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Go for a Ride\" width=\"640\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Provided to YouTube by CDBaby Go for a Ride \u00b7 Nod So Much Tonight \u2117 2018 Nod Released on: 2018-09-14 Auto-generated by YouTube.\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/li>\n<li><b>Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever &#8211; Hope Downs<\/b>. Energetic melodic Aussie guitar rock. There&#8217;s a lot in here that reminds me of a lot of great Australian rock bands from the 80s: INXS of course, but also The Church and Midnight Oil and Split Enz (OK, they were from NZ). They also do a nice Feelies-ish guitar drone\/jam thing now and then. Solid record, all the way through. Definitely one of my favorites of the year.<br \/>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" title=\"Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Time In Common [OFFICIAL VIDEO]\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_cGKEOqJeSzE\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/cGKEOqJeSzE\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cGKEOqJeSzE\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT2M5S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2018-07-17T09:02:51Z\" \/><\/div><meta itemprop=\"accessibilityFeature\" content=\"captions\" \/><div id=\"lyte_cGKEOqJeSzE\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/cGKEOqJeSzE\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Time In Common [OFFICIAL VIDEO]<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cGKEOqJeSzE\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/cGKEOqJeSzE\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Time In Common [OFFICIAL VIDEO]\" width=\"640\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"&#039;Hope Downs&#039; (Release Day: June 15, 2018) u.subpop.com\/HopeDowns Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever: http:\/\/www.rollingblackoutsband.com\/ Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/rollingbcf Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rollingblackoutscoastalfever On Tour: https:\/\/www.subpop.com\/artists\/rolling_blackouts_coastal_fever BandCamp https:\/\/rollingblackoutscoastalfever.bandcamp.com Sub Pop Records http:\/\/www.subpop.com MegaMart https:\/\/megamart.subpop.com\/ Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/subpop Facebook https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/subpoprecords Instagram https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/subpop SoundCloud http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/subpop Podcast http:\/\/subpop.fm\/ Subscribe To Sub Pop&#039;s YouTube Channel http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/subpoprecords VIDEO CREDITS Director: J. Austin Wilson www.johnaustinwilson.com Editor: J. Austin Wilson &amp; Chris Ophoven Director of Photography: J. Austin Wilson Colorist: Juan Melara\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/li>\n<li><b>Nujabes &#8211; Metaphorical Music<\/b>. He was one of the originators of &#8216;chill&#8217; hip-hop &#8211; lots of laid-back beats, smooth jazz-y samples, often with little or no vocals. It&#8217;s &#8230; exactly that. Good for layin about.<br \/>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" title=\"Nujabes (Metaphorical Music) 07 - Letter From Yokosuka\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_kTxt__RqqYU\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/kTxt__RqqYU\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kTxt__RqqYU\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M11S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2010-03-19T15:54:37Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_kTxt__RqqYU\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/kTxt__RqqYU\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Nujabes (Metaphorical Music) 07 - Letter From Yokosuka<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kTxt__RqqYU\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/kTxt__RqqYU\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Nujabes (Metaphorical Music) 07 - Letter From Yokosuka\" width=\"640\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Artist: Nujabes Album: Metaphorical Music Track: 07 - Letter From Yokosuka\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/li>\n<li><b>Hiatus Kaiyote &#8211; Choose Your Weapon<\/b>. If you like bands like Dirty Projectors (bands who seem dead set against repeating a phrase for more than two bars without a giant jarring leap in dynamics, rhythm or tempo) and you like modern jazz and soul, you&#8217;ll like this. The previous parenthetical is what kills it for me. There&#8217;s a nice phrase, I&#8217;d like to hear it a&#8230; oh, here&#8217;s something different, maybe I can get into &#8230; OK, another melod&#8230; ack! They&#8217;re talented players, no doubt. But why are they putting a dozen songs&#8217; worth of ideas into this verse? It made a lot of best-of lists this year, but I find it grating and nerve-wracking.<br \/>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" title=\"Hiatus Kaiyote - Breathing Underwater\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_p3tErZ5LUJY\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/p3tErZ5LUJY\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p3tErZ5LUJY\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT5M23S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2015-08-12T07:00:02Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_p3tErZ5LUJY\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/p3tErZ5LUJY\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Hiatus Kaiyote - Breathing Underwater<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/p3tErZ5LUJY\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/p3tErZ5LUJY\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Hiatus Kaiyote - Breathing Underwater\" width=\"640\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Music video by Hiatus Kaiyote performing Breathing Underwater.(C) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nod &#8211; So Much Tonight. Nod is always hard to explain. The best I can do is: Can, Pavement&#8217;s early EPs and The Stooges but without angst or ego. They&#8217;re so loose and ragged it seems like they&#8217;re always on the verge of falling apart. But there are enough hooks in their songs (rusty, broken, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-listening-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28683","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=28683"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28705,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28683\/revisions\/28705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}