{"id":1765,"date":"2011-03-17T22:10:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T05:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2011-03-17T22:10:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T05:10:45","slug":"kristian-hoffman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/kristian-hoffman\/","title":{"rendered":"KRISTIAN HOFFMAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KRISTIAN-HOFFMAN-M-Review-November2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1766\" title=\"KRISTIAN-HOFFMAN-M-Review-November2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KRISTIAN-HOFFMAN-M-Review-November2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KRISTIAN-HOFFMAN-M-Review-November2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KRISTIAN-HOFFMAN-M-Review-November2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>K<\/strong><strong>RISTIAN HOFFMAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Fop<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>kristianhoffman.com<\/p>\n<p>Veteran pop purist Kristian Hoffman has previously notched credits working with former Kinks kingpin Dave Davies and veteran producer Earle Mankey. On <em>Fop<\/em>, his fourth solo sojourn, he expands his ambitions by weaving together the strands of America\u2019s popular music traditions. From the sounds of the roaring \u201920s (\u201cImaginary Friend\u201d) to \u201970s-style power ballads (\u201cSomething New Is Born,\u201d \u201cCassandra\u201d) and\u2014gasp!\u2014even disco (\u201cSoothe Me\u201d), Hoffman proves himself a master crossing genre streams. His orchestrations offer these songs a lush cushion that elevates the drama and the delivery. While Hoffman occasionally recalls Todd Rundgren, Eric Carmen and <em>Ram<\/em>-era Paul McCartney in his obsession with embellishment, his arrangements never hide his melodies. The pop on <em>Fop<\/em> demonstrates creativity and craft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KRISTIAN HOFFMAN Fop kristianhoffman.com Veteran pop purist Kristian Hoffman has previously notched credits working with former Kinks kingpin Dave Davies and veteran producer Earle Mankey. On Fop, his fourth solo sojourn, he expands his ambitions by weaving together the strands of America\u2019s popular music traditions. From the sounds of the roaring \u201920s (\u201cImaginary Friend\u201d) to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,1289,1290,1287,10159,1286,1288,1175],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765"}],"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=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}