{"id":12714,"date":"2017-05-17T05:45:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T09:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=12714"},"modified":"2017-05-17T12:00:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T16:00:48","slug":"album-mini-review-buttercup-battle-of-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/17\/album-mini-review-buttercup-battle-of-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Buttercup &#8212; Battle of Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12715\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/buttercup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/buttercup.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/buttercup-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/buttercup-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>File next to: Sugar, Crowded House<\/p>\n<p>With a name like Buttercup \u2013 not to mention album art scattered with flowers \u2013 one might expect <i>Battle of Flowers <\/i>to be a collection of winsome, treacly pop. Alas, no: slashing electric guitars abound here. The melodies are rooted in pop convention, and every song has a strong hook, and there&#8217;s an anthemic quality to some of the group&#8217;s songwriting. Clever arrangement details are employed: \u201cGud Girls\u201d shifts between minimalist, almost all-vocals sections and a twitchy, new wave rave. Shade and light is a big part of the Buttercup approach: one moment \u201cHow to Think More About Sex\u201d finds the singer shouting aggressively about wanting a tender touch; the next, a vocal chorus plaintively asks \u201cwhy don&#8217;t you love me any more?\u201d The group&#8217;s sense of humor comes through on \u201cOpen On\/Shut Off,\u201d which conjures thoughts of Stewart (Police) Copeland&#8217;s Klark Kent persona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Sugar, Crowded House With a name like Buttercup \u2013 not to mention album art scattered with flowers \u2013 one might expect Battle of Flowers to be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65],"tags":[3046],"class_list":["post-12714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-buttercup","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12738,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12714\/revisions\/12738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}