{"id":3742,"date":"2011-10-09T19:34:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T02:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3742"},"modified":"2011-10-10T15:02:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T22:02:54","slug":"xavier-ophelia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/10\/xavier-ophelia\/","title":{"rendered":"XAVIER &#038; OPHELIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-XAVIER-OPHELIA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3743\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-XAVIER-OPHELIA.jpg\" alt=\"XAVIER &amp; OPHELIA\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-XAVIER-OPHELIA.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-XAVIER-OPHELIA-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>X<\/strong><strong>AVIER &amp; OPHELIA<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>X&amp;O<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>xandomusic.com<\/p>\n<p>It was a lucky break when Dave Tough found DeAnna Moore on MySpace. Back in 2009 the songwriter and producer needed a singer for some demos, and in Moore he found a musical chameleon keen on jazz, New Wave and Kings of Leon. Alongside such straight-up pop songs as the Dido-esque \u201cMilk &amp; Honey,\u201d the pair\u2019s debut features the suave soul throwback \u201cChateau Marmont\u201d and electro-glam gem \u201cI\u2019m Alright.\u201d The latter is a nod to Goldfrapp, who Tough and Moore cite as an influence, but it could have been an early-\u201980s hit for Olivia Newton John. Ditto the duo\u2019s version of the Kings\u2019 \u201cUse Somebody,\u201d presented here as a neon-bright dance track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XAVIER &amp; OPHELIA X&amp;O xandomusic.com It was a lucky break when Dave Tough found DeAnna Moore on MySpace. Back in 2009 the songwriter and producer needed a singer for some demos, and in Moore he found a musical chameleon keen on jazz, New Wave and Kings of Leon. Alongside such straight-up pop songs as the [&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":[196,10159,2482,2569,2568,2570],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742"}],"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=3742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3745,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions\/3745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}