{"id":1856,"date":"2011-03-18T11:27:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T18:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2011-03-18T11:27:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T18:27:15","slug":"violens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/violens\/","title":{"rendered":"VIOLENS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/VIOLENS-M-Review-December2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1857\" title=\"VIOLENS-M-Review-December2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/VIOLENS-M-Review-December2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/VIOLENS-M-Review-December2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/VIOLENS-M-Review-December2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>V<\/strong><strong>IOLENS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Amoral<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Friendly Fire\/Static Recital]<\/p>\n<p>Producer and multi-instrumentalist Jorge Elbrecht digs everything from black metal and hardcore punk to \u201990s dance music, but he has the \u201980s on the brain with <em>Amoral<\/em>, the debut album from his Brooklyn trio Violens. Elbrecht\u2019s is a different sort of nostalgia. Rather than referencing indie-rock faves like New Order or Gary Numan, he aims for the high-gloss Top 40 pop of the decade\u2019s latter half; if a new generation discovers When In Rome, Level 42 and Tears for Fears, Violens might be the reason why. Elbrecht breaks the mood with the occasional harsh beat or heavy blast of feedback, but for the most part this is a record filled with suave vocals, glistening guitars, echoing saxophones and synths galore. Elbrecht and bandmates venture briefly out of the \u201980s with the credible \u201960s-style psych-pop jam \u201cViolent Sensation Descends,\u201d but they can\u2019t top \u201cAcid Reign,\u201d one of the best George Michael songs George Michael never wrote. \u2013KP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIOLENS Amoral [Friendly Fire\/Static Recital] Producer and multi-instrumentalist Jorge Elbrecht digs everything from black metal and hardcore punk to \u201990s dance music, but he has the \u201980s on the brain with Amoral, the debut album from his Brooklyn trio Violens. Elbrecht\u2019s is a different sort of nostalgia. Rather than referencing indie-rock faves like New Order [&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":[196,1401,1334,1201,1403,1402,1400],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856"}],"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=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1858,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}