{"id":11463,"date":"2016-09-14T05:45:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T09:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11463"},"modified":"2026-02-10T09:01:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:01:58","slug":"album-mini-review-the-twilight-hours-black-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/14\/album-mini-review-the-twilight-hours-black-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: The Twilight Hours — Black Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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File next to: Todd Rundgren<\/strong>, Ben Folds<\/strong>, Matthew Sweet<\/strong><\/p>\n

Minneapolis’ Trip Shakespeare<\/strong><\/a> was always a band apart; they never fit into most people’s idea of that city’s sound. Scintillating vocal harmonies (featuring brothers Matt and Dan Wilson<\/strong>) and shimmering melodies were their stock-in-trade. When they folded, Dan and bassist John Munson<\/strong> formed the less-quirky, more commercial (yet still superb) Semisonic<\/strong>. But hardcore Trip Shakespeare fans missed the slyly off-kilter, disarming intimacy of the older band. Leading the Twilight Hours on 2009’s Stereo Night<\/i><\/a>, Munson and Matt Wilson<\/strong> captured the beauty of Trip but presented it in a more relaxed context. Seven years later the Twilight Hours return with the even-stronger Black Beauty<\/i>, a disc filled to the brim with memorable melodies that are both heart-rending and hook-filled. A fuller sound strikes the perfect balance between the very best characteristics of both Trip Shakespeare and Semisonic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

File next to: Todd Rundgren, Ben Folds, Matthew Sweet Minneapolis’ Trip Shakespeare was always a band apart; they never fit into most people’s idea of that city’s sound. Scintillating vocal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,55,62],"tags":[2269,2283],"class_list":["post-11463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-powerpop","category-rawk","tag-trip-shakespeare","tag-twilight-hours","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-55-id","cat-62-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11463","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=11463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30779,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11463\/revisions\/30779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}