{"id":8581,"date":"2015-10-02T05:30:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T09:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=8581"},"modified":"2015-10-18T22:28:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T22:28:19","slug":"album-mini-review-tommy-keene-laugh-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/02\/album-mini-review-tommy-keene-laugh-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Tommy Keene &#8212; Laugh in the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/keene_laugh.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"keene_laugh\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8583\" vspace=\"20\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>File Next to<\/em>: <strong>Marshall Crenshaw<\/strong>, <strong>Smithereens<\/strong>, <strong>Matthew Sweet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B01435HRAI&#038;asins=B01435HRAI&#038;linkId=T47LJAUH7KS3QHPZ&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A dedicated soldier in power pop&#8217;s ongoing struggle for critical and commercial success, Keene is at the top of the genre in terms of both quality and consistency. His preternatural abilities \u2013 crafting a sharp hook; wrapping it in a memorable, powerful melody; and applying heartfelt, often melancholy lyrics \u2013 make him an exemplar of what power pop can be at its very best. After the tangent of his deep-cut covers album (2013&#8217;s <em>Excitement At Your Feet<\/em>), Keene returns with another winning set of originals. He blasts out of the gate with the chiming near-perfection of \u201cOut of My Mind\u201d and continues with nine more tunes boasting muscular backing. The shimmering \u201cAll the Lights Are Alive\u201d demonstrates Keene&#8217;s skill at delivering lump-in-the-throat emotional content in the guise of an impossibly catchy pop song. <em>Laugh in the Dark<\/em> shows that Tommy Keene&#8217;s muse hasn&#8217;t failed him yet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" \/> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File Next to: Marshall Crenshaw, Smithereens, Matthew Sweet A dedicated soldier in power pop&#8217;s ongoing struggle for critical and commercial success, Keene is at the top of the genre in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,55,62,65],"tags":[2239],"class_list":["post-8581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-powerpop","category-rawk","category-review","tag-tommy-keene","cat-49-id","cat-55-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581","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=8581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8904,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581\/revisions\/8904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}