{"id":1734,"date":"2011-03-17T21:42:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T04:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2011-03-17T21:47:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T04:47:37","slug":"katie-melua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/katie-melua\/","title":{"rendered":"KATIE MELUA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KATIE-MELUA-M-Review-November2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1735\" title=\"KATIE-MELUA-M-Review-November2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KATIE-MELUA-M-Review-November2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KATIE-MELUA-M-Review-November2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KATIE-MELUA-M-Review-November2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>K<\/strong><strong>ATIE MELUA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The House<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Dramatico]<\/p>\n<p>Katie Melua has become a U.K. sensation, but stateside success has escaped her grasp so far. Her latest disc might just gain her the foothold she\u2019s been seeking. Produced by techno-pop wizard William Orbit, <em>The House<\/em> boasts a Dido-flavored feel perfectly suited to Melua\u2019s chanteuse-y approach. \u201cI\u2019d Love to Kill You,\u201d the opening track, sets the tone, as Melua\u2019s old-school pop voice is framed in a lovely coffeehouse setting. Other high points include \u201cRed Balloons,\u201d a poignant, lightly orchestrated love song wrapped in a dirge-like tempo; \u201cPlague of Love,\u201d a sassy pop-rocker that sounds like Enya with backbone; and \u201cThe Flood,\u201d an ambitious song that begins as a stately ballad, shifts into pulsing dance-pop overdrive, then ratchets down for a dramatic conclusion. On the darkly rendered \u201cGod on Drums, Devil on the Bass,\u201d Melua even ventures toward PJ Harvey territory. She doesn\u2019t quite get there, but it\u2019s a welcome indication that she\u2019s embracing new challenges. \u2013RH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATIE MELUA The House [Dramatico] Katie Melua has become a U.K. sensation, but stateside success has escaped her grasp so far. Her latest disc might just gain her the foothold she\u2019s been seeking. Produced by techno-pop wizard William Orbit, The House boasts a Dido-flavored feel perfectly suited to Melua\u2019s chanteuse-y approach. \u201cI\u2019d Love to Kill [&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":[196,1259,1257,1175,1258,1260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734"}],"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=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1737,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/1737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}