{"id":1994,"date":"2011-03-20T16:08:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T23:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2011-03-20T16:08:12","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T23:08:12","slug":"british-sea-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/british-sea-power\/","title":{"rendered":"BRITISH SEA POWER"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BRITISH-SEA-POWER-M-Review-JanFeb2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1995\" title=\"BRITISH-SEA-POWER-M-Review-JanFeb2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BRITISH-SEA-POWER-M-Review-JanFeb2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BRITISH-SEA-POWER-M-Review-JanFeb2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BRITISH-SEA-POWER-M-Review-JanFeb2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>B<\/strong><strong>RITISH SEA POWER<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Valhalla Dancehall<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Rough Trade]<\/p>\n<p>British Sea Power is known for big ideas and an even bigger sound. On their first three albums, these wily Brits transformed themselves from artsy thrashers into U2-grade stadium-rock flag wavers. That the group was nowhere near popular or accessible enough to play stadiums made the whole thing all the more confusing\u2014and intriguing. Then came its fourth album, <em>Man of Aran<\/em>, a largely instrumental soundtrack to a 1934 documentary. Following that diversion, British Sea Power had two options: stay freaky or veer back on course. On <em>Valhalla Dancehall<\/em>, the band does both. The record opens with its two most straightforward tracks, \u201cWho\u2019s in Control\u201d and \u201cWe Are Sound,\u201d gigantic rock songs filled with urgency and cryptic calls to action. From there, the band branches off into psychedelic punk (\u201cStunde Null\u201d), krautrock (\u201cLiving Is So Easy\u201d) and moody chamber-pop (\u201cCleaning Out the Rooms\u201d). The album ends with \u201cOnce More Now,\u201d an 11-minute epic more easily admired than enjoyed. \u2013Kenneth Partridge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRITISH SEA POWER Valhalla Dancehall [Rough Trade] British Sea Power is known for big ideas and an even bigger sound. On their first three albums, these wily Brits transformed themselves from artsy thrashers into U2-grade stadium-rock flag wavers. That the group was nowhere near popular or accessible enough to play stadiums made the whole thing [&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":[1531,1535,1533,653,1534,1532],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994"}],"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=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1997,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}