{"id":346,"date":"2010-09-24T11:07:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T16:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=346"},"modified":"2010-09-24T11:07:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T16:07:09","slug":"single-review-sky-paradegrand-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/24\/single-review-sky-paradegrand-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: Sky Parade\/Grand Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/ripple7sep10.jpg\" height=\"200\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"400\" \/><\/center>I don\u2019t usually review singles (remember those?) but this one warrants attention. <strong>Sky Parade<\/strong> is a band fronted by <strong>Tommy Dietrick<\/strong> (ex-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.musoscribe.com\/blast_from_the_past\/brian_jonestown_massacre_their_satanic_majesties_second_request.shtml\"><strong>Brian Jonestown Massacre<\/strong><\/a>). The band&#8217;s song \u201cI Should Be Coming Up (But I Keep Coming Down)\u201d weds psych-pop with shoegaze and a discofied beat, resulting in a vibe not at all unlike <strong>Stone Roses<\/strong>. But the production aesthetic is more intimate, less stadium-oriented. Which is good.<\/p>\n<p>The flip of this 7\u201d is \u201cUsed to Be the Sensitive Type\u201d from <strong>Grand Atlantic<\/strong>. I\u2019m a sucker for any song with the moxie to use the immortal words \u201csha-la-la\u201d as a chorus. (Tra-la-la \u2013 <em>a la <\/em>the <strong>Banana Splits<\/strong> &#8212; works equally well.) Hooks, handclaps, jangly Rickenbacker and a rubbery (almost synthy) bassline effectively renders this little disc a double a-side. Dig.<\/p>\n<p>Available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripple-music.com\/?page=release&amp;title=8\">Ripple Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 9px\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\" class=\"body\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" valign=\"middle\" border=\"0\" height=\"18\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"18\" \/> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 9px\" align=\"center\"> DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cmp.ly\/1\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/cmply_1.png\" alt=\"I have a material connection because I received a sample or review copy, or an item of nominal value that I can keep for consideration in preparing to write this content. I was\/am expected to return this item after my review.\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t usually review singles (remember those?) but this one warrants attention. Sky Parade is a band fronted by Tommy Dietrick (ex-Brian Jonestown Massacre). The band&#8217;s song \u201cI Should Be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","cat-65-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","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=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}