{"id":4902,"date":"2012-02-15T01:14:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T08:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4902"},"modified":"2012-02-15T01:14:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T08:14:12","slug":"brer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/02\/brer\/","title":{"rendered":"BR\u2019ER"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4903\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/BRERM-Review-Dec2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/BRERM-Review-Dec2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/BRERM-Review-Dec2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>BR\u2019ER<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>City of Ice<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>fullgrownman.com<\/p>\n<p>By the fourth track of this harrowing collection, it\u2019s high time for some sunlight\u2014the tune in question is called \u201cHope,\u201d but even that title turns out to be misleading. \u201cNow there\u2019s no hope for one,\u201d sings Benjamin Schurr, the Philly auteur behind Br\u2019er. \u201cHe lives in songs that are sung of pity and empathy and all in between.\u201d That\u2019s putting it lightly. Schurr funnels heartbreak, resentment, dark fantasies and grotesque fascinations into these 11 industrial-folk screeds, augmenting a traditional singer-songwriter vocabulary\u2014guitar, ukulele, strings\u2014with synth squeaks, ambient drones and fits of electronic percussion. On one song he credits a bandmate with playing a washing machine, but there\u2019s no getting through this stunningly bleak set without feeling a little dirty.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BR\u2019ER City of Ice fullgrownman.com By the fourth track of this harrowing collection, it\u2019s high time for some sunlight\u2014the tune in question is called \u201cHope,\u201d but even that title turns out to be misleading. \u201cNow there\u2019s no hope for one,\u201d sings Benjamin Schurr, the Philly auteur behind Br\u2019er. \u201cHe lives in songs that are sung [&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":[196,3071,3072,3032,3073,10159],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902"}],"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=4902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4904,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions\/4904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}