{"id":10459,"date":"2013-08-12T10:15:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T17:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=10459"},"modified":"2013-08-12T10:15:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T17:15:55","slug":"mortar-pestle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/08\/mortar-pestle\/","title":{"rendered":"MORTAR &#038; PESTLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><b><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10460\" alt=\"MORTAR-and-PESTLE-M-Review-No27\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MORTAR-and-PESTLE-M-Review-No27.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MORTAR-and-PESTLE-M-Review-No27.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MORTAR-and-PESTLE-M-Review-No27-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>MORTAR &amp; PESTLE<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><b><i>Mortar &amp; Pestle<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>mortarandpestlemusic.com<\/p>\n<p>One track into the debut from this Oakland trio, you might be surprised to see a drummer credited in the liners. On \u201cU.V.\u201d\u2014as good a first impression as any new group might hope to make\u2014singer Janaysa Lambert and keyboardist Paul Shinichi do soulful synth-pop somewhere between Depeche Mode and Des\u2019ree, that \u201990s one-hit wonder behind \u201cYou Gotta Be.\u201d They could have gotten by with keyboards alone, but on the subsequent six tracks, drummer Sean Paul Duke earns his keep, adding to the eclectic vibe of a band whose influences seemingly include \u201990s R&amp;B and \u201cGypsy\u201d-era Stevie Nicks. \u201cI\u2019m on my own,\u201d Lambert sings on \u201cSwitchblade Bandita,\u201d as Duke is wailing on the hi-hats. True enough.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MORTAR &amp; PESTLE Mortar &amp; Pestle mortarandpestlemusic.com One track into the debut from this Oakland trio, you might be surprised to see a drummer credited in the liners. On \u201cU.V.\u201d\u2014as good a first impression as any new group might hope to make\u2014singer Janaysa Lambert and keyboardist Paul Shinichi do soulful synth-pop somewhere between Depeche Mode [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,10159,6875,6957],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10461,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459\/revisions\/10461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}