{"id":9523,"date":"2015-11-30T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=9523"},"modified":"2026-07-02T07:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:45:06","slug":"album-mini-review-keep-shelly-in-athens-now-im-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/30\/album-mini-review-keep-shelly-in-athens-now-im-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Keep Shelly in Athens &#8211; Now I&#8217;m Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9524\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/keep_shelly.jpg\" alt=\"donovans_brain_heirloom\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p>File Next to: Cocteau Twins, Beach House<\/p>\n<p>With their gauzy, heavily-reverbed ambience, this Greek chillwave duo sounds a bit like synthy Britpop a la <b>Cocteau Twins<\/b>, crossed with a less-mannered <b>Beach House<\/b>. Clearly they&#8217;d prefer that listeners focus on the music rather than the personalities; shrouded in mystery, they reveal little about themselves beyond their names (<strong><b>R\u03a0\u042f<\/b><\/strong> and new vocalist <b>Myrtha<\/b>). The dreamy arrangements are strengthened by a solid, propulsive beat, and Myrtha&#8217;s English-language vocals ride confidently atop the music. After a series of EPs, a compilation drawing from the best among those, and a 2013 album (<i>At Home<\/i>) that showed them searching for a sound, Keep Shelly in Athens come up with a winning approach on the appropriately-titled <i>Now I&#8217;m Ready<\/i>. Equal parts retro and modern, KSIA draws from the past (parts of the title track evoke warm memories of <b>The Dream Academy<\/b>) and looks confidently toward the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File Next to: Cocteau Twins, Beach House With their gauzy, heavily-reverbed ambience, this Greek chillwave duo sounds a bit like synthy Britpop a la Cocteau Twins, crossed with a less-mannered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,65,72],"tags":[2547],"class_list":["post-9523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-review","category-trip-hop","tag-keep-shelly-in-athens","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-65-id","cat-72-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9523","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=9523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31809,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9523\/revisions\/31809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}