{"id":1694,"date":"2011-03-17T09:08:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T16:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2011-03-17T09:08:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T16:08:31","slug":"the-concretes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/the-concretes\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CONCRETES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/THE-CONCRETES-M-Review-November2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1695\" title=\"THE-CONCRETES-M-Review-November2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/THE-CONCRETES-M-Review-November2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/THE-CONCRETES-M-Review-November2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/THE-CONCRETES-M-Review-November2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>T<\/strong><strong>HE CONCRETES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>WYWH<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Friendly Fire]<\/p>\n<p>The Concretes used to be a band Camera Obscura fans could listen to when they tired of Scottish indie-pop and wanted to sample the Swedish equivalent. But that was before singer Victoria Bergsman went solo, leaving drummer Lisa Milberg to make that long walk from behind the kit to center stage. The new lineup makes its American debut with <em>WYWH<\/em>\u2014a collection billed as their disco departure, although it turns out Milberg hasn\u2019t quite led the octet into clubland. Beat-driven cuts \u201cAll Day,\u201d \u201cGood Evening\u201d and \u201cWhat We\u2019ve Become\u201d are too drowsy for the dance floor, and Milberg\u2019s come-ons involve staying in bed all day and leaving parties early to drink whiskey and spin Paul Simon records. The Concretes inch even closer to their roots in the disc\u2019s second half, replacing lethargic dance grooves with tissue-y pop tunes. This is a band still struggling to find its way, but it\u2019s worth joining them as they wander. \u2013Kenneth Partridge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE CONCRETES WYWH [Friendly Fire] The Concretes used to be a band Camera Obscura fans could listen to when they tired of Scottish indie-pop and wanted to sample the Swedish equivalent. But that was before singer Victoria Bergsman went solo, leaving drummer Lisa Milberg to make that long walk from behind the kit to center [&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":[1205,1203,1202,1201,1206,1204,1199,1207,1200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694"}],"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=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1696,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}