{"id":2542,"date":"2011-07-26T12:24:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T19:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2542"},"modified":"2011-07-26T12:24:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T19:24:13","slug":"the-raveonettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/the-raveonettes\/","title":{"rendered":"THE RAVEONETTES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2543\" title=\"The-Raveonettes-Raven-in-the-Grave-M-Review-May2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/The-Raveonettes-Raven-in-the-Grave-M-Review-May2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/The-Raveonettes-Raven-in-the-Grave-M-Review-May2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/The-Raveonettes-Raven-in-the-Grave-M-Review-May2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>T<\/strong><strong>HE RAVEONETTES<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Raven in the Grave<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Vice]<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, garage-rock revivalists the Raveonettes got their hands on some synths and recorded two uncharacteristic EPs, <em>Beauty Dies<\/em> and <em>Sometimes They Drop By<\/em>. The Danish duo still drew from \u201950s and \u201960s rock, but rather than stomping on distortion pedals they summoned the woozy-cool textures of \u201980s dream-pop and David Lynch film scores. They followed those samplers with 2009\u2019s bubblegum palette-cleanser <em>In and Out of Control<\/em>, but on their fifth album, Sharin Foo and Sune Rose Wagner set aside the surf-rock kitsch and revisit their darker, more electronic impulses. They contemplate the afterlife on \u201cWar in Heaven,\u201d while \u201cSummer Moon\u201d and \u201cMy Time\u2019s Up\u201d offer variations on the theme from <em>Twin Peaks<\/em>\u2014a tune their slower songs tend to reference. Foo has called this a wintry album, and rightly so\u2014but the late-disc mood-breaker \u201cIgnite\u201d find the Raves sunny and hopeful, imagining a love that sets their hearts aflame. \u2013Kenneth Partridge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE RAVEONETTES Raven in the Grave [Vice] In 2008, garage-rock revivalists the Raveonettes got their hands on some synths and recorded two uncharacteristic EPs, Beauty Dies and Sometimes They Drop By. The Danish duo still drew from \u201950s and \u201960s rock, but rather than stomping on distortion pedals they summoned the woozy-cool textures of \u201980s [&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":[196,1634,2003,2002,2004],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542"}],"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=2542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2544,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions\/2544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}