{"id":12416,"date":"2017-03-10T05:30:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T10:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=12416"},"modified":"2017-03-09T13:46:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T18:46:16","slug":"album-review-sxip-shirey-a-bottle-of-whiskey-and-a-handful-of-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/10\/album-review-sxip-shirey-a-bottle-of-whiskey-and-a-handful-of-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Sxip Shirey &#8212; A Bottle of Whiskey and a Handful of Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12417\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/sxip_shirey_bottle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" \/>File next to: Amanda Palmer, Yoko Ono, Bad Things<\/p>\n<p>A quick written description of the music made by Brooklyn-based <strong>Sxip Shirey<\/strong> might leave the reader with the wrong impression: he often makes music using found objects right alongside what one thinks of as traditional instruments. Moreover, the latter category is populated by a lot of synthesizers. Some of his live events seem to draw from the Fluxus movement of the 1960s and &#8217;70s. But this self-described electro-acoustic artist is deeply committed to groove and melody. As a result, <i>A Bottle of Whiskey and a Handful of Bees<\/i> strikes the perfect balance between art- and dance-pop. Guest vocals from darling of Americana <strong>Rhiannon Giddens<\/strong> (\u201cWoman of Constant Sorrow\u201d and two others) and <strong>Xavier<\/strong> (\u201cCinnamon Stick\u201d and \u201cI Got a Man\u201d) are highlights, but the entire 17-track album of instrumentals and treated vocal tracks is a brilliant synthesis of styles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Amanda Palmer, Yoko Ono, Bad Things A quick written description of the music made by Brooklyn-based Sxip Shirey might leave the reader with the wrong impression: he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,49,65],"tags":[2979,2978],"class_list":["post-12416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electronica","category-new-release","category-review","tag-rhiannon-giddens","tag-sxip-shirey","cat-26-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12416","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=12416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12418,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12416\/revisions\/12418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}