{"id":11403,"date":"2016-09-01T05:30:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T09:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11403"},"modified":"2016-09-01T07:41:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T11:41:46","slug":"album-mini-review-bubblegum-lemonade-beard-on-a-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/01\/album-mini-review-bubblegum-lemonade-beard-on-a-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Bubblegum Lemonade &#8212; Beard on a Bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11404\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/bubblegum_lemonade.jpg\" alt=\"bubblegum_lemonade\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" \/><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; 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=B01GQ47SG2&amp;asins=B01GQ47SG2&amp;linkId=ac8c7af5b2450e2ee8108ab80da1c0de&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: <strong>Television Personalities<\/strong>, <strong>Jonathan Richman<\/strong>, <strong>The La&#8217;s<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With a simple, straightforward DIY approach, this Glasgow group named after a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/01\/album-review-cass-elliot-the-road-is-no-place-for-a-lady\/\"><strong>Cass Elliot<\/strong><\/a> album makes winsome, unaffected pop. Their gentle vocal harmonies suggest fellow Scotsmen\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/22\/bootleg-bin-teenage-fanclub-live-at-the-13th-note-walex-chilton-04-08-93\/\"><strong>Teenage Fanclub<\/strong><\/a> with their distortion pedals taken away. Jangling guitars and swaying melodies populate this four-song EP. Leader <strong>Lawrence \u201cLaz\u201d McCluskey<\/strong> is sufficiently plugged-in to pop culture to have titled the band&#8217;s second album <i>Sophomore Release<\/i>, and his style simultaneously pokes fun at pop music while taking it seriously enough to create unironic songs about golden afternoons and Saturday girls. <i>Beard on a Bike<\/i> doesn&#8217;t rock as hard as the group&#8217;s earlier efforts, and the four songs here don&#8217;t offer a great deal of sonic variety, but they&#8217;re exemplars of this particular style. If you love that classic Rickenbacker guitar sound wed to shimmering melodies, this EP has plenty to offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Television Personalities, Jonathan Richman, The La&#8217;s With a simple, straightforward DIY approach, this Glasgow group named after a Cass Elliot album makes winsome, unaffected pop. Their gentle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,62,65],"tags":[2816],"class_list":["post-11403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-rawk","category-review","tag-bubblegum-lemonade","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403","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=11403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11405,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403\/revisions\/11405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}