{"id":2680,"date":"2011-07-27T00:21:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T07:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2011-07-27T00:22:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T07:22:32","slug":"title-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/title-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"TITLE TRACKS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cEverything goes away!\u201d John Davis proclaims on \u201cShaking Hands,\u201d the first song on the sophomore effort from Title Tracks. As he makes this claim, stampeding drums and his own gruff, jangling guitar threaten to drown him out\u2014and in the process succeed in proving him wrong. One thing that clearly refuses to go away is punky \u201970s power-pop, the signature sound on this 32-minute rocket of a record.<\/p>\n

Davis formed Title Tracks after playing drums in the aggressively twisty indie group Q and Not U and co-fronting the peppy boy-girl duo Georgie James. Those projects had their merits, but this trio better showcases his talents. As a tunesmith, he\u2019s right up there with power-pop greats Paul Collins and Dwight Twilley, as well as modern-day heroes Ted Leo and Gentleman Jesse. By design, the Tracks don\u2019t offer much sonic variation, but Davis switches from guitar to organ on \u201cForget the Ghost,\u201d changing things up the way Elvis Costello did with \u201cClowntime Is Over,\u201d a similar-sounding slow tune from 1980\u2019s mostly hypercaffeinated Get Happy!!<\/em>. Davis is more direct with his tribute to the Flamin\u2019 Groovies, covering that seminal band\u2019s \u201cI Can\u2019t Hide.\u201d It\u2019s flamin\u2019, all right, but his originals are just as groovy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TITLE TRACKS In Blank titletracksdc.blogspot.com \u201cEverything goes away!\u201d John Davis proclaims on \u201cShaking Hands,\u201d the first song on the sophomore effort from Title Tracks. As he makes this claim, stampeding drums and his own gruff, jangling guitar threaten to drown him out\u2014and in the process succeed in proving him wrong. One thing that clearly refuses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,2127,10159,1636,2126,2128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680"}],"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=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2686,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions\/2686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}