{"id":13004,"date":"2017-07-24T05:30:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T09:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=13004"},"modified":"2017-07-23T14:16:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T18:16:52","slug":"album-review-jonathan-coulton-solid-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/24\/album-review-jonathan-coulton-solid-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Jonathan Coulton &#8212; Solid State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13005\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/coulton_solid.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/coulton_solid.png 380w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/coulton_solid-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/coulton_solid-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/>File next to: Sufjan Stevens, Fountains of Wayne, The Might Be Giants<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Coulton&#8217;s career is something of a paradox: he&#8217;s far from being a household name; he&#8217;s never had a charting hit single. Yet he made more than a half million dollars from his songwriting in a single year. Coulton has cracked the code of how to make music on his terms, and put food on the table while doing so. He also makes thought-provoking music full of melody and subtle riches. His ninth and latest, <i>Solid State<\/i> is \u2013 of all things \u2013 a concept album about current-day technology and all that goes with it (the internet, social media, artificial intelligence, trolls, etc.). But first and foremost he&#8217;s a songwriter, and the lovely melodies in which he places his lyrics are the biggest draw of the album. Coulton&#8217;s inerrant way with a melody means that his songs will be resolutely stuck in the listener&#8217;s head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Sufjan Stevens, Fountains of Wayne, The Might Be Giants Jonathan Coulton&#8217;s career is something of a paradox: he&#8217;s far from being a household name; he&#8217;s never had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,62,65],"tags":[3103],"class_list":["post-13004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-rawk","category-review","tag-jonathan-coulton","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13004","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=13004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13006,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13004\/revisions\/13006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}