{"id":1060,"date":"2010-08-17T11:31:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T18:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2010-08-17T11:31:53","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T18:31:53","slug":"tracy-bonham-masts-of-manhatta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/tracy-bonham-masts-of-manhatta\/","title":{"rendered":"TRACY BONHAM + Masts of Manhatta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Masts-of-Manhatta-M-Review-JulyAugust2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1061\" title=\"Masts-of-Manhatta-M-Review-JulyAugust2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Masts-of-Manhatta-M-Review-JulyAugust2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Masts-of-Manhatta-M-Review-JulyAugust2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Masts-of-Manhatta-M-Review-JulyAugust2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>T<\/strong><strong>RACY BONHAM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Masts of Manhatta<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Engine Room Recordings]<\/p>\n<p>Tracy Bonham\u2019s brand of alternative pop-rock has often been compared to Liz Phair and PJ Harvey, but on <em>Masts of Manhatta<\/em> she edges closer to the sophisticated pop of Sam Phillips and Patty Larkin. Bonham gives her new songs a solid melodic foundation and applies adventurous arrangements to bring those tunes color and life. High points include \u201cJosephine,\u201d a cabaret song fitted with sputtering brass and angular electric guitar; \u201cDevil\u2019s Got Your Boyfriend,\u201d a calypso-tinged tune with a sinister vibe; and \u201cYour Night Is Wide Open,\u201d a spooky ballad fueled by finger-picked acoustic guitar and a bridge that sounds like carnival music gone awry. As always, Bonham\u2019s violin work provides subtle textures, becoming a key ingredient in the album\u2019s stripped-down sound. The disc features the occasional unfettered pop song\u2014witness the breezy, summery \u201cIn the Moonlight\u201d\u2014but most of the time Bonham doctors the proceedings with a mad-scientist glint in her eye.<br \/>\n\u2013Russell Hall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRACY BONHAM Masts of Manhatta [Engine Room Recordings] Tracy Bonham\u2019s brand of alternative pop-rock has often been compared to Liz Phair and PJ Harvey, but on Masts of Manhatta she edges closer to the sophisticated pop of Sam Phillips and Patty Larkin. Bonham gives her new songs a solid melodic foundation and applies adventurous arrangements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,647,623,646,645],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060"}],"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=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}