{"id":16578,"date":"2019-03-30T05:10:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T09:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=16578"},"modified":"2019-03-26T16:36:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T20:36:42","slug":"single-review-les-techno-guilty-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/30\/single-review-les-techno-guilty-pleasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: Les Techno \u2013 \u201cGuilty Pleasure\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16579\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/les_techno.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/les_techno.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/les_techno-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/les_techno-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>NYC post-punk artist Les Techno aims for a dance pop vibe on \u201cGuilty Pleasure.\u201d Don\u2019t be scared off by that description. There\u2019s a gritty feel to the song that places it in a kind of male-version-of-Blondie category. Nicely treated guitars and stuttering percussion has a vaguely late \u201870s feel, miles away form what passes for current-day dance pop. Dissonant guitar leads toward the song\u2019s end give it a pleasantly disorienting character that (perhaps only vaguely) suggests <i>Lodger<\/i>-period David Bowie. With a vocal that seems to recall Lou Reed and Jonathan Richman, \u201cGuilty Pleasure\u201d is a pleasurable track; one needn\u2019t feel the least bit guilty listening to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYC post-punk artist Les Techno aims for a dance pop vibe on \u201cGuilty Pleasure.\u201d Don\u2019t be scared off by that description. There\u2019s a gritty feel to the song that places [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,50,62,65],"tags":[3806],"class_list":["post-16578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-new-wave","category-rawk","category-review","tag-les-techno","cat-49-id","cat-50-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16578","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=16578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16580,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16578\/revisions\/16580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}