{"id":12519,"date":"2017-04-12T05:30:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T09:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=12519"},"modified":"2017-03-22T12:36:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T16:36:44","slug":"album-mini-review-r-stevie-moore-and-jason-falkner-make-it-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/12\/album-mini-review-r-stevie-moore-and-jason-falkner-make-it-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: R. Stevie Moore and Jason Falkner — Make it Be"},"content":{"rendered":"

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File next to: Martin Newell, The Orange Peels, Fountains of Wayne<\/strong><\/p>\n

With output that makes Guided by Voices’ Robert Pollard<\/strong> look like Boston’s Tom Scholz<\/strong>, lo-fi hero R. Stevie Moore knows how to write indelibly catchy songs. But he often doesn’t: on his 400-plus albums, Moore’s decidedly skewed pop often wraps accessible melodies inside ultra-quirky, left-field arrangements. Multi-instrumentalist power pop legend (and hired gun for Air, Jellyfish<\/strong> and Beck<\/strong>) Jason Falkner can create transcendent, rocking pop seemingly at will. The seemingly unlikely pairing of these two *auteurs<\/i> has resulted in Make it Be<\/i>, an 18-cut album that brings out the very best in both musicians. Here, Falkner’s predilection for ambitious arrangements is subdued in favor of a brilliantly straightforward approach, and he helps songwriter Moore limit his tendency toward defiant weirdness to the lyrics and song titles (\u201cI H8 PPL,\u201d for example). Make it Be<\/i> is a high point in the catalogs of both artists. <\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

File next to: Martin Newell, The Orange Peels, Fountains of Wayne With output that makes Guided by Voices’ Robert Pollard look like Boston’s Tom Scholz, lo-fi hero R. Stevie Moore […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65],"tags":[1105,1770],"class_list":["post-12519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-jason-falkner","tag-r-stevie-moore","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\/12519","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=12519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12547,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519\/revisions\/12547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}