{"id":15881,"date":"2019-01-06T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=15881"},"modified":"2019-01-07T10:55:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T15:55:55","slug":"album-review-imagination-movers-10-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/06\/album-review-imagination-movers-10-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Imagination Movers \u2013 10-4"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At its worst, kid-oriented music is so sugary that it makes the listener\u2019s teeth hurt. At its best, the genre entertains kids and (admittedly to a lesser extent) adults alike, and bring generations together over shared enjoyment of the musical experience. Imagination Movers lean in the latter direction; their songs are catchy and simple enough to capture the, er, imagination of youngsters, but complex enough both instrumentation-wise and in arrangement to intrigue adult listeners. The subject matter of the 13 songs on 10-4<\/i> are age-appropriate, but the music itself hits the sweet spot between simple and sophisticated. Some ace guests make a goo collection even better; Lisa Loeb got her start as a mainstream artist but has developed a parallel career as a kid-focused songwriter and performer; her duet with the group on \u201cButterfly Wings\u201d is simply charming. A collaboration with hip-hop act The Durbulence (\u201cTwo Truck\u201d) is catchy as well; it\u2019s the kid-friendly mirror image of gangsta rap. Throughout 10-4<\/i>, the group deftly and completely avoids the dreaded twee characteristics that threaten to induce insulin shock in grown-up audiences; there\u2019s nothing here that will annoy adults. In fact, the cheery, uptempo songs are likely to brighten the day of listeners of most any age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At its worst, kid-oriented music is so sugary that it makes the listener\u2019s teeth hurt. At its best, the genre entertains kids and (admittedly to a lesser extent) adults alike, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,65],"tags":[3701],"class_list":["post-15881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-review","tag-imagination-movers","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15881","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=15881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15887,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15881\/revisions\/15887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}