{"id":1064,"date":"2010-08-17T11:53:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T18:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2010-08-17T11:53:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T18:53:55","slug":"blue-giant-blue-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/blue-giant-blue-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"BLUE GIANT + Blue Giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Blue-Giant-M-Review-JulyAugust20101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1066\" title=\"Blue-Giant-M-Review-JulyAugust2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Blue-Giant-M-Review-JulyAugust20101.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Giant \" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Blue-Giant-M-Review-JulyAugust20101.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Blue-Giant-M-Review-JulyAugust20101-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>B<\/strong><strong>LUE GIANT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Blue Giant<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Vanguard]<\/p>\n<p>In their day job as the indie duo Viva Voce, Kevin and Anita Robinson make dreamy records that let Anita handle the greater portion of the singing chores. Blue Giant moves the spotlight toward Kevin, and turns the husband-and-wife team into something resembling alt-country\u2019s answer to the White Stripes. Anita\u2019s \u201cLonely Girl\u201d brings to mind a shyer Neko Case, and the love-on-a-tightrope \u201cGone for Good\u201d could\u2019ve been authored by Gram Parsons as a musical dialogue for himself and Emmylou Harris. But Kevin Robinson\u2019s voice, often relegated to a mysterious hush in the Viva Voce catalog, is a tad too smooth and friendly to speak for characters who have experienced emotional wear and tear. When he warns that his affection is \u201cnever to return,\u201d it feels like an empty threat from a narrator who\u2019s under a lover\u2019s thumb. <em>Blue Giant<\/em> doesn\u2019t need better songs\u2014it needs a chain smoker. \u2013DS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLUE GIANT Blue Giant [Vanguard] In their day job as the indie duo Viva Voce, Kevin and Anita Robinson make dreamy records that let Anita handle the greater portion of the singing chores. Blue Giant moves the spotlight toward Kevin, and turns the husband-and-wife team into something resembling alt-country\u2019s answer to the White Stripes. Anita\u2019s [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064"}],"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=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}