{"id":12432,"date":"2017-03-13T05:45:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T09:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=12432"},"modified":"2017-03-13T08:01:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T12:01:48","slug":"album-review-the-jigsaw-seen-for-the-discriminating-completist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/13\/album-review-the-jigsaw-seen-for-the-discriminating-completist\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: The Jigsaw Seen &#8212; For the Discriminating Completist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12433\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/jigsawseen_completist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/jigsawseen_completist.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/jigsawseen_completist-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>File next to: Baby Lemonade, The Who, Fountains of Wayne<\/p>\n<p>Laboring just below the radar for more than a quarter century, Los Angeles-based <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/16\/album-review-the-jigsaw-seen-old-man-reverb\/\">The Jigsaw Seen<\/a> have been releasing consistently satisfying records since its 1990 debut, <i>Shortcut Through Clown Alley<\/i>. The group&#8217;s body of work shows its musical inventiveness and effective synthesis of a wide array of influences. Though they&#8217;ve never had a major hit-proper (they did earn a spot on Rhino&#8217;s <i>Children of Nuggets<\/i> box set), this new compilation serves well as both a kind of greatest (non-) hits and \u2013 as the title suggests \u2013 a tidy odds-and-sods collection. Group mainstays <strong>Jonathan Lea<\/strong> and primary songwriter <strong>Dennis Davison<\/strong> have a knack for creating high-octane tunes that emphasize the power in power pop. <i>For the Discriminating Completist<\/i> is filled with undiscovered gems. With any luck, the title of the opening track \u201cThe Best is Yet to Come\u201d is a prescient one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Baby Lemonade, The Who, Fountains of Wayne Laboring just below the radar for more than a quarter century, Los Angeles-based The Jigsaw Seen have been releasing consistently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,49,55,65],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-12432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-compilation","category-new-release","category-powerpop","category-review","tag-jigsaw-seen","cat-19-id","cat-49-id","cat-55-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12432","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=12432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12434,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12432\/revisions\/12434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}