{"id":11157,"date":"2016-07-20T05:30:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T09:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11157"},"modified":"2016-07-13T09:10:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T13:10:57","slug":"album-mini-review-claypool-lennon-delirium-monolith-of-phobos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/20\/album-mini-review-claypool-lennon-delirium-monolith-of-phobos\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Claypool Lennon Delirium &#8212; Monolith of Phobos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11158\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/lennon_claypool_delirium.jpg\" alt=\"lennon_claypool_delirium\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/lennon_claypool_delirium.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/lennon_claypool_delirium-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<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=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B01DAEOVCU&amp;asins=B01DAEOVCU&amp;linkId=cf01574c281689701172bbac76c6ee5e&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nFile next to: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/01\/pink-floyd-a-critical-essay\/\"><i>A Saucerful of Secrets<\/i>-era <b>Pink Floyd<\/b><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/20\/moogfest-2012-recap-part-2\/\"><b>Primus<\/b><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/26\/dvd-review-john-lennon-the-plastic-ono-band-live-in-toronto-69\/\"><b>Plastic Ono Band<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Les Claypool<\/b>&#8216;s detractors point to his tendency toward being too clever by half, for making self-consciously \u201cweird\u201d music with wacky sounds, a kind of less creative, poor man&#8217;s <b>Frank Zappa<\/b>. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/09\/happy-birthday-sean-lennon\/\"><b>Sean Lennon<\/b><\/a> has moved in some odd musical directions, but has avoided critical brickbats by focusing on song craft. This collaborative album \u2013 supported by a current tour \u2013 builds on the strongest characteristics of both artists&#8217; work, creating an album that&#8217;s both weird (and bass-heavy) enough for Claypool fans and straight-ahead enough to satisfy those who expect (at the very least) rocking melody from the son of one of pop music&#8217;s most imposing figures. The NYC-born Lennon has never sounded so British as on this disc. \u201cCricket and the Genie: Movement I, The Delirium\u201d offers up an infectious and rubbery groove, with a fine dusting of psychedelia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: A Saucerful of Secrets-era Pink Floyd, Primus, Plastic Ono Band Les Claypool&#8216;s detractors point to his tendency toward being too clever by half, for making self-consciously \u201cweird\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","cat-1-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11157","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=11157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11159,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11157\/revisions\/11159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}