{"id":10600,"date":"2016-04-20T05:45:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T09:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=10600"},"modified":"2016-04-20T07:57:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T11:57:08","slug":"album-mini-review-information-society-orders-of-magnitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/20\/album-mini-review-information-society-orders-of-magnitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Information Society &#8212; Orders of Magnitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10601\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/infosoc.jpg\" alt=\"infosoc\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/infosoc.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/infosoc-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nFile next to <b>ABC<\/b>, <b>Human League<\/b>, <b>Simple Minds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: left; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B019D3J1MC&amp;asins=B019D3J1MC&amp;linkId=7GBHASRNI4AQDLP5&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Listeners can be forgiven for thinking that <b>Information Society<\/b> are an early 1980s synth outfit from the UK; there&#8217;s an unmistakable air of early MTV-era electronic dance pop to all of their tunes. So it might come as some surprise to learn that the group (essentially a large collective built around the trio of <b>Paul Robb<\/b>, <b>Kurt Harland Larson<\/b> and <b>James Cassidy<\/b>) is all-American and based in Minneapolis. After a run of four albums in the period 1988-1997, Information Society largely went inactive for a decade, and then again until 2014. Their latest, *<i>Orders of Magnitude<\/i>, is a compilation focusing on eleven of their knowing covers of classic tunes from some of their heroes, including <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/13\/dvd-review-the-complete-truth-about-de-evolution\/\"><b>DEVO<\/b><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/01\/mountain-oasis-electronic-summit-recap-part-2\/\"><b>Gary Numan<\/b><\/a>, <b>Heaven 17<\/b>, and even Disney composers <b>the Sherman Brothers<\/b>. Their remake of \u201cBeautiful World\u201d is a highlight, and features DEVO&#8217;s <b>Gerald V. Casale<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to ABC, Human League, Simple Minds Listeners can be forgiven for thinking that Information Society are an early 1980s synth outfit from the UK; there&#8217;s an unmistakable air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,65],"tags":[2667],"class_list":["post-10600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-review","tag-information-society","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10638,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600\/revisions\/10638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}