{"id":3722,"date":"2011-10-09T19:17:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T02:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3722"},"modified":"2011-10-10T15:13:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T22:13:09","slug":"the-fear-and-trembling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/10\/the-fear-and-trembling\/","title":{"rendered":"THE FEAR AND TREMBLING"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-THE-FEAR-AND-TREMBLING.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3723\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-THE-FEAR-AND-TREMBLING.jpg\" alt=\"THE FEAR AND TREMBLING\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-THE-FEAR-AND-TREMBLING.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-THE-FEAR-AND-TREMBLING-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>T<\/strong><strong>HE FEAR AND TREMBLING<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>This Old Earthquake <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>thefearandtrembling.com<\/p>\n<p>This New York band\u2019s second full-length finds singer-guitarist Ryan Stimpson, multi-instrumentalist Adam Bains and drummer Morgan Loy (here abetted by bass player and percussionist Charlie Kessenich) tightening its grooves and reining in some of the My Bloody Valentine-ish expansiveness of 2007\u2019s <em>The Fear and Trembling\u2019s Octopus<\/em>. Still, this is an act that follows its instincts into unexpected song forms\u2014the longest track on <em>This Old Earthquake<\/em>, the six-and-a-half-minute \u201cOnce You Go,\u201d features its most fragmentary lyric. Bains\u2019 words are alternately psychedelic and straightforward (everything from \u201cThe bayonet, the foaming horse\u201d to \u201cLight up my cigarette, I need a pick-me-up\u201d), while Loy\u2019s driving drums give the whole affair a confident kick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE FEAR AND TREMBLING This Old Earthquake thefearandtrembling.com This New York band\u2019s second full-length finds singer-guitarist Ryan Stimpson, multi-instrumentalist Adam Bains and drummer Morgan Loy (here abetted by bass player and percussionist Charlie Kessenich) tightening its grooves and reining in some of the My Bloody Valentine-ish expansiveness of 2007\u2019s The Fear and Trembling\u2019s Octopus. Still, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,10159,2482,2553,2551,2552],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722"}],"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=3722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3781,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions\/3781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}