{"id":10601,"date":"2013-08-12T15:58:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T22:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=10601"},"modified":"2013-08-12T15:58:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T22:58:18","slug":"surfer-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/08\/surfer-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"SURFER BLOOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10602\" alt=\"Surfer-Blood-M-Review-No28\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Surfer-Blood-M-Review-No28.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Surfer-Blood-M-Review-No28.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Surfer-Blood-M-Review-No28-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>SURFER BLOOD<\/h1>\n<p><b><i>Pythons<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>[Warner Bros.]<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s something delightfully \u201990s about this Florida quartet\u2019s sophomore album and major label debut, and with producer Gil Norton (Pixies, Counting Crows, Throwing Muses) at the helm, it\u2019s no huge surprise. <i>Pythons<\/i> is full of punchy guitar hooks and smooth, harmonious vocals, and while it\u2019s poppy, there are some fetching bursts of anger. On opener \u201cDemon Dance,\u201d frontman John Paul Pitts sings about sucking \u201cthe venom out of your bones\u201d and later screams about \u201cnosebleed seats.\u201d A couple of the songs are distinctively reminiscent of Pixies, and one example, \u201cNeedles and Pins,\u201d features meandering Spanish-style guitar. Another, \u201cSlow Six,\u201d is a powerful pairing of discordant noise and ballad-worthy riffs. Formed less than four years ago, Surfer Blood could have easily struggled to match the grizzled pop prowess of their 2010 debut, <i>Astro Coast<\/i>, but these songs are even more addictive. Credit <i>Pythons<\/i>\u2019 throwback riffs\u2014quirky with teeth that truly sink in. \u2013SF<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SURFER BLOOD Pythons [Warner Bros.] There\u2019s something delightfully \u201990s about this Florida quartet\u2019s sophomore album and major label debut, and with producer Gil Norton (Pixies, Counting Crows, Throwing Muses) at the helm, it\u2019s no huge surprise. Pythons is full of punchy guitar hooks and smooth, harmonious vocals, and while it\u2019s poppy, there are some fetching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,6978,7034,7033,528],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10601"}],"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=10601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10603,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10601\/revisions\/10603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}