{"id":4188,"date":"2011-11-04T11:46:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T18:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4188"},"modified":"2011-11-04T11:46:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T18:46:25","slug":"the-pack-a-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/11\/the-pack-a-d\/","title":{"rendered":"THE PACK A.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-THE-PACK-AD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4189\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-THE-PACK-AD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-THE-PACK-AD.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-THE-PACK-AD-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>THE PACK A.D.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Unpersons<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>thepackafterdeath.com<\/p>\n<p>Listening to the fourth album from this Canadian garage-rock duo, an image emerges of singer Becky Black. She\u2019s red-eyed and sneering, hurt and angry, seconds away from either breaking down and bawling or bashing someone in the teeth. Her gnashing guitar riffs suggest the latter, as does Maya Miller\u2019s total-war drumming. Their sound is violent and cathartic, and on \u201cRid of Me\u201d\u2014a start-stop rager reminiscent of Joan Jett\u2019s \u201cBad Reputation\u201d\u2014Black relishes extricating herself from an unhappy relationship. \u201cI can get a new hairdo and a new attitude,\u201d she taunts, \u201cbut you\u2019re still you.\u201d She can be self-critical, too, but the songs remain the same: soulful, scornful and tuneful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE PACK A.D. Unpersons thepackafterdeath.com Listening to the fourth album from this Canadian garage-rock duo, an image emerges of singer Becky Black. She\u2019s red-eyed and sneering, hurt and angry, seconds away from either breaking down and bawling or bashing someone in the teeth. Her gnashing guitar riffs suggest the latter, as does Maya Miller\u2019s total-war [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,10159,2615,2787,2785,2786],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188"}],"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=4188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4190,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188\/revisions\/4190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}