{"id":12513,"date":"2017-04-07T05:45:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T09:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=12513"},"modified":"2017-03-22T12:35:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T16:35:26","slug":"album-mini-review-circus-devils-laughs-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/07\/album-mini-review-circus-devils-laughs-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Circus Devils — Laughs Last"},"content":{"rendered":"

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File next to: Guided by Voices, Flaming Lips, Starling Electric<\/strong><\/p>\n

Seemingly random \u2013 yet reliably clever \u2013 wordplay has long been a hallmark of Robert Pollard’s work. Along with prodigious output, that quality is something he shares not only with his primary group Guided by Voices, but with long-running side project Circus Devils. After more than a dozen albums, and for reasons known only to the principals \u2013 Pollard and brothers Tim and Todd Tobias<\/strong> \u2013 the group has decided to suspend operations. The straightforwardly (and aptly) titled Laughs Last<\/i> is the trio’s swan song (a best-of, Laughs Best<\/i>, is being released simultaneously). The band explores a wider sonic palette than GBV: the hypnotic \u201cInto Gear\u201d is positively spooky. And with \u201cTo Each His Zone (Sunshine Baby Butt),\u201d yet again Pollard indulges his penchant for tricking-up a perfectly accessible melody with an off-kilter beat. Laughs Last<\/i> is both representative of Circus Devils and a fitting farewell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

File next to: Guided by Voices, Flaming Lips, Starling Electric Seemingly random \u2013 yet reliably clever \u2013 wordplay has long been a hallmark of Robert Pollard’s work. Along with prodigious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65],"tags":[2465,1859],"class_list":["post-12513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-circus-devils","tag-robert-pollard","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12513","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=12513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12541,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12513\/revisions\/12541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}