{"id":3988,"date":"2011-10-30T19:11:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T02:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3988"},"modified":"2011-11-02T01:07:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T08:07:19","slug":"the-red-jumpsuit-apparatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/10\/the-red-jumpsuit-apparatus\/","title":{"rendered":"THE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-THE-RED-JUMPSUIT-APPARATUS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3989\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-THE-RED-JUMPSUIT-APPARATUS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-THE-RED-JUMPSUIT-APPARATUS.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-THE-RED-JUMPSUIT-APPARATUS-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>T<\/strong><strong>HE RED <\/strong><strong>JUMPSUIT <\/strong><strong>APPARATUS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Am I the Enemy<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Collective Sounds]<\/p>\n<p>Florida\u2019s Red Jumpsuit Apparatus has spent its career splitting the difference between the singsongy vocals of pop-punk and hoarse screaming and frenzied drum bursts of hardcore. The band\u2019s latest further refines the formula on 11 songs that mix the personal and political. Opener \u201cSalvation\u201d tackles the former with an exhortation to persevere through teen angst, while the galloping title track sneers at a culture of greed and calculating politicians. If that sounds a little like Green Day\u2019s <em>American Idiot<\/em>, well, yes\u2014although <em>Am I the Enemy<\/em> is no concept album. Rather, these are snapshots of longing paired with disillusion, often within the same song: \u201cWhere Are the Heroes\u201d veers from terse vocals screamed over pounding rhythm to a hooky chorus that soars over the tumult below. The seesaw shifts are a bit much by the end of the album, but there\u2019s nearly always a catchy melody threading its way through the gut-punch guitars. \u2013ED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS Am I the Enemy [Collective Sounds] Florida\u2019s Red Jumpsuit Apparatus has spent its career splitting the difference between the singsongy vocals of pop-punk and hoarse screaming and frenzied drum bursts of hardcore. The band\u2019s latest further refines the formula on 11 songs that mix the personal and political. Opener \u201cSalvation\u201d tackles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,2670,2669,2615,2671],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988"}],"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=3988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4090,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988\/revisions\/4090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}