{"id":1959,"date":"2011-03-20T15:31:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T22:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2011-03-20T15:31:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T22:31:09","slug":"gang-of-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/gang-of-four\/","title":{"rendered":"GANG OF FOUR"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/GANG-OF-FOUR-M-Review-JanFeb2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1960\" title=\"GANG-OF-FOUR-M-Review-JanFeb2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/GANG-OF-FOUR-M-Review-JanFeb2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/GANG-OF-FOUR-M-Review-JanFeb2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/GANG-OF-FOUR-M-Review-JanFeb2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>G<\/strong><strong>ANG OF FOUR<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Content<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Yep Roc]<\/p>\n<p>Gang of Four roared out of the chute more than three decades ago with <em>Entertainment!<\/em>, one of the post-punk era\u2019s finest albums. A prime influence on the alternative-rock crowd, the British quartet framed punk\u2019s subversive spirit in jagged rhythms and shards of staccato riffs. Remarkably, the group\u2019s first album of new material since reuniting in 2004 picks up right where its early work left off. Armed with sturdy melodies, the band (led by original members Jon King and Andy Gill) unleashes angular, rhythmically sophisticated guitar-pop tinged with noise-band abrasiveness. \u201cShe Said\u201d is a searing fuzz rocker fueled by a pulsating electronic beat, \u201cWho Am I\u201d sports a funk-based melody and \u201cYou Don\u2019t Have to Be Mad\u201d is a Stooges-like rocker powered by brittle slabs of guitar that steer just this side of industrial. While making no concessions to current fashion, Gang of Four sounds just as contemporary as it did three decades ago. \u2013Russell Hall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GANG OF FOUR Content [Yep Roc] Gang of Four roared out of the chute more than three decades ago with Entertainment!, one of the post-punk era\u2019s finest albums. A prime influence on the alternative-rock crowd, the British quartet framed punk\u2019s subversive spirit in jagged rhythms and shards of staccato riffs. Remarkably, the group\u2019s first album [&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":[196,1492,1490,1489,1059,1491,398],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959"}],"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=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1961,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions\/1961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}