{"id":9713,"date":"2016-01-01T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=9713"},"modified":"2015-12-16T15:31:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T15:31:47","slug":"album-mini-review-alan-vega-alex-chilton-ben-vaughn-cubist-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/01\/album-mini-review-alan-vega-alex-chilton-ben-vaughn-cubist-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Alan Vega \/ Alex Chilton \/ Ben Vaughn \u2013 Cubist Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9714\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/cubist_blues.jpg\" alt=\"cubist_blues\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/cubist_blues.jpg 280w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/cubist_blues-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/cubist_blues-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B014T15TD8&amp;asins=B014T15TD8&amp;linkId=DR25F2D6HQYYP6M6&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>File next to: <strong>Tav Falco and Panther Burns<\/strong>, Suicide, <strong>Jesus and Mary Chain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the more unlikely musical summits in recorded history, this one-off album was made in two days in December 1994 and is finally back in print. All three participants brought the baggage of their individual reputations: <strong>Big Star<\/strong> refugee <strong>Alex Chilton<\/strong> was notorious for his cavalier approach, as evidenced by the tossed-off nature of albums like <em>Bach&#8217;s Bottom<\/em> and <em>Like Flies on Sherbert<\/em>. <strong>Alan Vega<\/strong>&#8216;s work with <strong>Suicide<\/strong> proved him as uncompromising an artist as one could conceive, while <strong>Ben Vaughn<\/strong> was the most singer-songwriterly of the lot. <em>Cubist Blues<\/em> succeeds at its stated goal of recording controlled chaos: sounding as if it was captured live in an empty warehouse, the album&#8217;s production aesthetic is decidedly one-note (not to mention one-take). Perhaps best described as \u201clate-night, laid-back psychobilly,\u201d this is a timeless document of outsider artists doing their thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Tav Falco and Panther Burns, Suicide, Jesus and Mary Chain One of the more unlikely musical summits in recorded history, this one-off album was made in two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,64,65],"tags":[2572,157,2573,1319,2571],"class_list":["post-9713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rawk","category-reissue","category-review","tag-alan-vega","tag-alex-chilton","tag-ben-vaughn","tag-light-in-the-attic","tag-suicide","cat-62-id","cat-64-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9713","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=9713"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9939,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9713\/revisions\/9939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}