{"id":2389,"date":"2011-07-25T23:32:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T06:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2011-07-25T23:33:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T06:33:41","slug":"anna-waronker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/anna-waronker\/","title":{"rendered":"ANNA WARONKER"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2390\" title=\"ANNA-WARONKER-M-Review-MarApr2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ANNA-WARONKER-M-Review-MarApr2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ANNA-WARONKER-M-Review-MarApr2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ANNA-WARONKER-M-Review-MarApr2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>A<\/strong><strong>NNA WARONKER<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>California Fade<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Five Foot Two]<\/p>\n<p>Anna Waronker fronted alt-rock darlings That Dog during the \u201990s, which scored hits like \u201cNever Say Never\u201d before breaking up in 1997. Her long-awaited second solo album shimmers like the sun setting on the Pacific, as she crafts a lush, introspective indie pop sound that often brings to mind Aimee Mann (as on the fragile, soul-searching \u201cHow Am I Doing?\u201d). Waronker\u2019s outlook, however, offers a few more rays of optimism than Mann\u2019s: In the opening track \u201cBeautiful Life\u201d she proclaims, \u201cI refuse to live in unhappiness,\u201d while in \u201cCannibals &amp; Quicksand\u201d (which recalls Paul McCartney\u2019s \u201cJunk\u201d) she sings, \u201cYou fill my life with light.\u201d Waronker hasn\u2019t totally polished away all the rough spots. Noisy guitars add bite to the tumultuous \u201cScared\u201d and the New Wave-y \u201cI Don\u2019t Wanna.\u201d With <em>California Fade<\/em>, Waronker has delivered a smart disc about the ups and downs of grown-up life. \u2013MB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANNA WARONKER California Fade [Five Foot Two] Anna Waronker fronted alt-rock darlings That Dog during the \u201990s, which scored hits like \u201cNever Say Never\u201d before breaking up in 1997. Her long-awaited second solo album shimmers like the sun setting on the Pacific, as she crafts a lush, introspective indie pop sound that often brings to [&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":[196,1888,1889,1890,1807],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389"}],"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=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions\/2392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}