{"id":11916,"date":"2016-12-09T05:45:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T10:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11916"},"modified":"2016-11-28T12:38:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T17:38:14","slug":"album-mini-review-bell-x1-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/09\/album-mini-review-bell-x1-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Bell X1 &#8212; Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11906\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bellx1_arms.jpg\" alt=\"bellx1_arms\" width=\"300\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bellx1_arms.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bellx1_arms-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><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=B01LTHOQGG&amp;asins=B01LTHOQGG&amp;linkId=1bbf057ff2004de4ab4da6354493ea45&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>File next to: <b>Talking Heads<\/b>, <b>Crowded House<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Because of the wide array of styles explored on <i>Arms<\/i>, the record sometimes feels more like a mixtape than an album. \u201cFail Again, Fail Better\u201d sounds like a half-finished collaboration between <b>Paul Simon<\/b> and <b>David Byrne<\/b>. The electronically-textured \u201cBring Me a Fireking\u201d is vaguely reminiscent of Neil Finn&#8217;s solo work. And the largely unadorned \u201cThe Upswing\u201d places <b>Paul Noonan<\/b>&#8216;s melancholy vocal against an understated instrumental arrangement. \u201cOut of Love\u201d sounds like a lost <b>Sting<\/b> tune circa <i>Ten Summoner&#8217;s Tales<\/i>. Elsewhere, hints of trip-hop and world music find their way into the mix. Yet taken as a whole, the disparate styles come together into a cohesive whole. On their 9<sup>th<\/sup> album \u2013 the group&#8217;s sixth for its own label \u2013 the Dublin, Ireland group serves up more of their brand of melodic (if more than slightly idiosyncratic) pop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Talking Heads, Crowded House Because of the wide array of styles explored on Arms, the record sometimes feels more like a mixtape than an album. \u201cFail Again, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,65],"tags":[2921],"class_list":["post-11916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-review","tag-bell-x1","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\/11916","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=11916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11917,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11916\/revisions\/11917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}