{"id":21287,"date":"2021-07-17T05:30:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T09:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=21287"},"modified":"2026-08-24T08:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T12:57:09","slug":"album-review-deadlights-s-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/17\/album-review-deadlights-s-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Deadlights &#8212; s\/t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-32270\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/whynoimg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/whynoimg.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/whynoimg-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/whynoimg-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>The press sheet accompanying this release had me expecting something a bit more noisy and perhaps less melodic. But Jeff Shelton (he of the Well Wishers) has a seemingly inerrant sense of melodicism, and that shines through regardless of the musical idiom within which he chooses to traffic. Deadlights is nominally dream pop, Britpop and noise rock, the one-sheet tells us. But \u201cBreaking Down\u201d is pure jangly pop, and \u201cAsunder\u201d and \u201cA Better Friend\u201d recall <i>Amazing Disgrace<\/i>-period Posies. The sound occasionally does get gauzy\/heavy, as on \u201cHighways,\u201d but the melodies are there, in the same way that The Jesus and Mary Chain\u2019s <i>Psychocandy<\/i> wrapped pop melodies in a spiky shell. But sparking pop like \u201cThe Knowing\u201d underscores Shelton\u2019s ability to move from style to style in seamless fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The press sheet accompanying this release had me expecting something a bit more noisy and perhaps less melodic. But Jeff Shelton (he of the Well Wishers) has a seemingly inerrant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65],"tags":[4593,1126,2356],"class_list":["post-21287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-deadlights","tag-jeff-shelton","tag-well-wishers","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\/21287","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=21287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32271,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21287\/revisions\/32271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}