{"id":1979,"date":"2011-03-20T15:47:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T22:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2011-03-20T15:47:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T22:47:24","slug":"john-vanderslice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/john-vanderslice\/","title":{"rendered":"JOHN VANDERSLICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/JOHN-VANDERSLICE-M-Review-JanFeb2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1980\" title=\"JOHN-VANDERSLICE-M-Review-JanFeb2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/JOHN-VANDERSLICE-M-Review-JanFeb2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/JOHN-VANDERSLICE-M-Review-JanFeb2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/JOHN-VANDERSLICE-M-Review-JanFeb2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>J<\/strong><strong>OHN VANDERSLICE<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>White Wilderness<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Dead Oceans]<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s always been an orchestral sensibility to John Vanderslice\u2019s music. This time he makes it official by teaming with San Francisco\u2019s Magik*Magik Orchestra on nine new tunes featuring Minna Choi\u2019s subtle, skillful arrangements of strings, horns, woodwinds and more traditional rock toys like piano and pedal steel guitar. Sleek strings race crosswise across the contrapuntal groaning of wind instruments on \u201cConvict Lake,\u201d ghostly pedal steel floats through \u201cEnglish Vines,\u201d and bold strings swirl above a sturdy drum beat on \u201cOvercoat.\u201d Vanderslice pulls back to strummed acoustic guitar on \u201cAfter It Ends,\u201d and the simple song sounds perfectly at home amid the more elaborate fare surrounding it. It\u2019s worth noting that Vanderslice, who\u2019s known for exacting (if not fussy) sojourns in the studio, recorded <em>White Wilderness<\/em> live with Magik*Magik in a mere three days. After all, there\u2019s no sense trying to improve on something you got right the first time. \u2013Eric R. Danton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHN VANDERSLICE White Wilderness [Dead Oceans] There\u2019s always been an orchestral sensibility to John Vanderslice\u2019s music. This time he makes it official by teaming with San Francisco\u2019s Magik*Magik Orchestra on nine new tunes featuring Minna Choi\u2019s subtle, skillful arrangements of strings, horns, woodwinds and more traditional rock toys like piano and pedal steel guitar. Sleek [&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":[196,1514,1059,1512,1513],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979"}],"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=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}