{"id":11534,"date":"2016-09-27T05:30:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T09:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11534"},"modified":"2016-09-27T08:11:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T12:11:17","slug":"album-mini-review-starling-electric-electric-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/27\/album-mini-review-starling-electric-electric-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Starling Electric &#8212; Electric Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11535\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/starling_electirc_company.jpg\" alt=\"starling_electirc_company\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/starling_electirc_company.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/starling_electirc_company-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<iframe style=\"float: left; padding: 10px; width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=as_ss_li_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B01E9T00SY&#038;asins=B01E9T00SY&#038;linkId=3690c88010da7321fde090a3f840cab7&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nFile next to: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/14\/pete-yorn-a-singersongwriter-for-all-seasons\/\"><strong>Pete Yorn<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/03\/circus-devils-the-devils-in-the-details\/\"><strong>Bob Pollard<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/10\/album-mini-review-bob-mould-patch-the-sky\/\"><strong>Bob Mould<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2008, Michigan&#8217;s <strong>Starling Electric<\/strong> released <i>Clouded Staircase<\/i>, one of the best albums of that decade, and one that almost nobody heard. The original songs combined the best qualities of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/15\/guided-by-voices-a-study-in-well-prepared-spontaneity\/\"><strong>Guided by Voices<\/strong><\/a>&#8216; Anglophile rock with vocal and arrangement prowess that encouraged positive comparisons with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/11\/dvd-review-brian-wilson-songwriter-1962-1969\/\"><strong>Brian Wilson<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s baroque-rock masterpiece <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/09\/brain-wilson-critics-pet\/\"><i>Pet Sounds<\/i><\/a>. The record earned critical praise, but otherwise went unnoticed, stiffed, and the band disappeared \u2026 for years. But out of the spotlight, songwriter\/leader <strong>Caleb Dillon<\/strong> kept right on writing and recording. Around 2014 he finished what would become <i>Electric Company<\/i>, the cream of nearly a decade&#8217;s worth of home studio woodshedding. Finally released (digital-only) in 2016, <i>Electric Company<\/i> is a worthy successor to the first disc. Noisy rock coexists nicely with creamy harmonies and deeply melodic songwriting. Like <i>Clouded Staircase<\/i>, it&#8217;s both a song cycle and a collection of pop tunes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Pete Yorn, Bob Pollard, Bob Mould In 2008, Michigan&#8217;s Starling Electric released Clouded Staircase, one of the best albums of that decade, and one that almost nobody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,62,65],"tags":[2847,2846],"class_list":["post-11534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-rawk","category-review","tag-caleb-dillon","tag-starling-electric","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\/11534","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=11534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11536,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11534\/revisions\/11536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}