{"id":3671,"date":"2011-10-09T18:44:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T01:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3671"},"modified":"2011-10-09T18:44:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T01:44:09","slug":"alkaline-trio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/10\/alkaline-trio\/","title":{"rendered":"ALKALINE TRIO"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-ALKALINE-TRIO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3672\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-ALKALINE-TRIO.jpg\" alt=\"ALKALINE TRIO\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-ALKALINE-TRIO.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-ALKALINE-TRIO-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>A<\/strong><strong>LKALINE TRIO<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Damnesia<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Epitaph]<\/p>\n<p>Alkaline Trio has spent 15 years channeling heartbreak and righteous indignation into gut-punching pop-punk songs with the aid of electricity. On its eighth album the group unplugs and offers stripped-down versions of its best-loved tunes, as well as two new ones and a Violent Femmes cover. As longtime fans might have guessed, the Chicago band doesn\u2019t need speed or distortion to get its material across. Singer and main songwriter Matt Skiba shines in the acoustic setting, showcasing his evocative vocals and chainsaw-sharp wordplay. Set against quiet guitars, his horror-show imagery on \u201cThis Could Be Love\u201d feels wonderfully overdramatic. The pianos on \u201cThe American Scream,\u201d meanwhile, make the story of a soldier\u2019s suicide all the more affecting. There\u2019s even a rare happy song, \u201cOlde English 800,\u201d in which Skiba finds sunshine in a bottle of malt liquor. The Trio has been louder and faster in the past, but it\u2019s never sounded better. \u2014Kenneth Partridge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALKALINE TRIO Damnesia [Epitaph] Alkaline Trio has spent 15 years channeling heartbreak and righteous indignation into gut-punching pop-punk songs with the aid of electricity. On its eighth album the group unplugs and offers stripped-down versions of its best-loved tunes, as well as two new ones and a Violent Femmes cover. As longtime fans might have [&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":[196,2520,2519,1341,2482],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671"}],"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=3671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3673,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions\/3673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}