{"id":1725,"date":"2011-03-17T21:34:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T04:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2011-03-17T21:34:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T04:34:53","slug":"superchunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/superchunk\/","title":{"rendered":"SUPERCHUNK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/SUPERCHUNK-M-Review-November2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1726\" title=\"SUPERCHUNK-M-Review-November2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/SUPERCHUNK-M-Review-November2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/SUPERCHUNK-M-Review-November2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/SUPERCHUNK-M-Review-November2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>S<\/strong><strong>UPERCHUNK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Majesty Shredding<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Merge Records]<\/p>\n<p>Superchunk doesn\u2019t aspire to be Merge Records\u2019 most innovative or best-selling act. Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance\u2014founders of both Superchunk and Merge\u2014leave that to the Arcade Fire, whose <em>Suburbs<\/em> album recently became the venerable North Carolina indie imprint\u2019s first-ever chart-topper. The decidedly less ambitious <em>Majesty Shredding<\/em>, Superchunk\u2019s first full-length in nine years, is a gift to fans who have been following the group since its Clinton-era heyday. Flush with punky guitars and grabby pop melodies, the album could have been released in the mid-\u201990s, just as the quartet was transitioning from the crunch of 1993\u2019s <em>On the Mouth<\/em> to the slightly more restrained sound of 1997\u2019s <em>Indoor Living<\/em>. As always, McCaughan sings high and hard, voicing each inscrutable lyric with unmistakable enthusiasm. On \u201cHot Tubes,\u201d a rare midtempo number reminiscent of Pavement\u2019s \u201cStereo,\u201d he sings, \u201cYeah, we\u2019re back where we belong\u201d\u2014perhaps acknowledging the consistency that is Superchunk\u2019s greatest strength. \u2013KP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUPERCHUNK Majesty Shredding [Merge Records] Superchunk doesn\u2019t aspire to be Merge Records\u2019 most innovative or best-selling act. Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance\u2014founders of both Superchunk and Merge\u2014leave that to the Arcade Fire, whose Suburbs album recently became the venerable North Carolina indie imprint\u2019s first-ever chart-topper. The decidedly less ambitious Majesty Shredding, Superchunk\u2019s first full-length in [&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":[196,1251,1250,1249,1248,175,1175,1252,1247],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725"}],"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=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1727,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/1727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}