{"id":4572,"date":"2012-02-03T17:41:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T00:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4572"},"modified":"2012-02-03T17:41:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T00:41:04","slug":"reid-paley-and-black-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/02\/reid-paley-and-black-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"REID PALEY AND BLACK FRANCIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/REID-PALEY-AND-BLACK-FRANCIS-M-Review-November2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4667\" title=\"REID-PALEY-AND-BLACK-FRANCIS-M-Review-November2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/REID-PALEY-AND-BLACK-FRANCIS-M-Review-November2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/REID-PALEY-AND-BLACK-FRANCIS-M-Review-November2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/REID-PALEY-AND-BLACK-FRANCIS-M-Review-November2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>R<\/strong><strong>EID PALEY AND BLACK FRANCIS<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Paley &amp; Francis<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Sonic Unyon Records]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll bring down my foot on your daisy chain\/I\u2019ll have a drink from your jugular vein\u2026\u201d Given Black Francis\u2019 reputation as a dark character, those lyrical musings from opening entry \u201cCurse\u201d would seem to affirm his ability to shock the heck out of his listeners. Joining forces with frequent collaborator Reid Paley, the former Frank Black (born Charles Thompson) offers up an off-kilter collection of woozy serenades, barroom blues and rousing revelry. Paley proves a game collaborator\u2014he and Francis wrote these songs in three days and enlisted veteran producer Jon Tiven, ace bassist David Hood and piano legend Spooner Oldham to fill in the stripped-down arrangements. The combination of players often produces oddball results, from the crooning, swooning \u201cThe Last Song\u201d and the over-the-top ballad \u201cUgly Life\u201d to the chaotic sing-along \u201cHappy Shoes\u201d and the ramshackle shuffle of \u201cPraise,\u201d a song Lou Reed could be proud to call his own. \u2013LZ<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REID PALEY AND BLACK FRANCIS Paley &amp; Francis [Sonic Unyon Records] \u201cI\u2019ll bring down my foot on your daisy chain\/I\u2019ll have a drink from your jugular vein\u2026\u201d Given Black Francis\u2019 reputation as a dark character, those lyrical musings from opening entry \u201cCurse\u201d would seem to affirm his ability to shock the heck out of his [&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":[196,2864,2951,2950,2952],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572"}],"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=4572"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4668,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions\/4668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}