{"id":4883,"date":"2012-02-15T01:03:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T08:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4883"},"modified":"2012-02-15T01:03:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T08:03:19","slug":"brett-netson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/02\/brett-netson\/","title":{"rendered":"BRETT NETSON"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/BRETT-NETSON-M-Review-Dec2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4884\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/BRETT-NETSON-M-Review-Dec2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/BRETT-NETSON-M-Review-Dec2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/BRETT-NETSON-M-Review-Dec2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>BRETT NETSON<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Simple Work for the Dead<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>thisisthenewblack.com<\/p>\n<p>Acoustic guitars anchor Brett Netson\u2019s solo debut, but it\u2019s his electric tones\u2014coarse, buzzing and intended to agitate\u2014that give this album its post-apocalyptic feel. The Built to Spill guitarist and longtime Caustic Resin leader plays through amps that sound as if they\u2019re powered by iffy generators, and indeed given this disc\u2019s major themes\u2014greed, war, environmental and economic collapse\u2014there\u2019s a sense these 10 tracks were cut the electricity-starved morning after Armageddon. The psychedelic desert-rock jams \u201cPreaching to the Choir,\u201d \u201cSomeone Else\u201d and \u201cLupus\u201d kick up gnarly dust clouds, while \u201cGod is Wrong\u201d recasts \u201cKnockin\u2019 on Heaven\u2019s Door\u201d as a kind of hazy elegy for mankind. \u201cKeep your head above water,\u201d Netson sings elsewhere. Easier said than done.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRETT NETSON Simple Work for the Dead thisisthenewblack.com Acoustic guitars anchor Brett Netson\u2019s solo debut, but it\u2019s his electric tones\u2014coarse, buzzing and intended to agitate\u2014that give this album its post-apocalyptic feel. The Built to Spill guitarist and longtime Caustic Resin leader plays through amps that sound as if they\u2019re powered by iffy generators, and indeed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,3054,3032,10159,3055,3056],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883"}],"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=4883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4885,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions\/4885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}