{"id":1941,"date":"2011-03-20T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1941"},"modified":"2011-03-20T09:13:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T16:13:05","slug":"nicole-atkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/nicole-atkins\/","title":{"rendered":"NICOLE ATKINS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/NICOLE-ATKINS-M-Review-JanFeb2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1942\" title=\"NICOLE-ATKINS-M-Review-JanFeb2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/NICOLE-ATKINS-M-Review-JanFeb2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/NICOLE-ATKINS-M-Review-JanFeb2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/NICOLE-ATKINS-M-Review-JanFeb2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>NICOLE ATKINS<\/h2>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Mondo Amore<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Razor &amp; Tie]<\/p>\n<p>Four years ago in \u201cBrooklyn\u2019s On Fire!\u201d Nicole Atkins sang about a city in flames while sounding too wrapped up in a magical, boy-crazy dream to really care. Her second album fast-forwards to a point where love-induced blindness has lost some of its power and where a conflict has arisen between our need to move on and our desire to keep what\u2019s in front of us. When Atkins isn\u2019t sticking up for a cheater and ordering him to her bed, she\u2019s comparing him to the devil and claiming that her soul is under attack from a flock of ravenous vultures. When she isn\u2019t giving in to her romantic side with the help of a string section, she\u2019s letting her new band bang away at songs fit for small, sweaty rock clubs. The intense, mixed emotions build to form \u201cThe Tower,\u201d an apocalyptic closer that leaves us pondering which side was the last one standing. \u2013David Styburski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NICOLE ATKINS Mondo Amore [Razor &amp; Tie] Four years ago in \u201cBrooklyn\u2019s On Fire!\u201d Nicole Atkins sang about a city in flames while sounding too wrapped up in a magical, boy-crazy dream to really care. Her second album fast-forwards to a point where love-induced blindness has lost some of its power and where a conflict [&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":[196,1059,1482,1481,199],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941"}],"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=1941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1945,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions\/1945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}