{"id":1074,"date":"2010-08-17T12:21:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T19:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2010-08-17T12:21:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T19:21:50","slug":"mystery-jets-serotonin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/mystery-jets-serotonin\/","title":{"rendered":"MYSTERY JETS + Serotonin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Serotonin-M-Review-JulyAugust2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1075\" title=\"Serotonin-M-Review-JulyAugust2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Serotonin-M-Review-JulyAugust2010.jpg\" alt=\"Serotonin\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Serotonin-M-Review-JulyAugust2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Serotonin-M-Review-JulyAugust2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>M<\/strong><strong>YSTERY JETS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Serotonin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Rough Trade]<\/p>\n<p>Mystery Jets singer Blaine Harrison learned about music through his father, Henry, who founded the group, spent years as a touring member and still helps the English quintet with songwriting. The elder Harrison is responsible for\u2014or perhaps to blame for\u2014his son\u2019s love of freaky, frilly progressive rock, an influence the Jets mostly avoid on their third album. On highlights \u201cToo Late to Talk\u201d and \u201cFlash a Hungry Smile,\u201d Blaine Harrison and company make tasteful use of analog synths, using them to set up a harmony-rich folk jam and \u201970s pure-pop mood-booster, respectively. Blaine\u2019s pop instincts are impeccable\u2014whether he\u2019s referencing the smeared-black textures of Siouxsie and the Banshees (as on \u201cWaiting on a Miracle\u201d) or the crisper attack of U2, he puts melody first, emotion second and lyrics a distant third. <em>Serotonin<\/em> is about the kind of love and longing best expressed with clich\u00e9s. It\u2019s familiar, unforced and, thankfully, not all that progressive. \u2013KP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MYSTERY JETS Serotonin [Rough Trade] Mystery Jets singer Blaine Harrison learned about music through his father, Henry, who founded the group, spent years as a touring member and still helps the English quintet with songwriting. The elder Harrison is responsible for\u2014or perhaps to blame for\u2014his son\u2019s love of freaky, frilly progressive rock, an influence the [&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":[196,623,651,653,652],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074"}],"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=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}