{"id":4905,"date":"2012-02-15T01:16:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T08:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4905"},"modified":"2012-02-15T01:16:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T08:16:12","slug":"justin-robinson-the-mary-annettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/02\/justin-robinson-the-mary-annettes\/","title":{"rendered":"JUSTIN ROBINSON &amp; THE MARY ANNETTES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4906\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/JUSTIN-ROBINSON-AND-THE-MARY-ANNETTES-M-Review-Dec2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/JUSTIN-ROBINSON-AND-THE-MARY-ANNETTES-M-Review-Dec2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/JUSTIN-ROBINSON-AND-THE-MARY-ANNETTES-M-Review-Dec2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1>JUSTIN ROBINSON &amp;<br \/>\nTHE MARY ANNETTES<\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Bones for Tinder<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>justinrobinsonandthemaryannettes.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From the Carter Family to Outkast, Robert Johnson to R.E.M., there\u2019s a long, proud tradition of weirdness in Southern music. A key feature has always been contradiction\u2014joy and pain, humor and dread, God and Satan\u2014and there\u2019s plenty to be found on Justin Robinson\u2019s debut album with backing band the Mary Annettes. Previously known for his work with the Grammy-winning stringband Carolina Chocolate Drops, the singer and multi-instrumentalist covers roughly a century of music on <em>Bones for Tinder<\/em>, presenting old-timey folk and bluegrass in ways that rap and indie-rock fans might understand. On \u201cShips and Verses,\u201d a sparse tune built from banjo and schoolyard handclaps, Robinson name-checks Janet Jackson and references Shakira, singing, \u201cWe don\u2019t care if your hips lie\/We\u2019re not here for truth, just want to catch your eye.\u201d The band gets a bigger sound on \u201cVultures\u201d and \u201cThe Phil Spectors,\u201d both of which pair Robinson\u2019s magical-realist lyrics with hip-hop beats and the pluck and drone of acoustic instruments. It all comes together on \u201cBright Diamonds,\u201d a surreal mash-up of past and present\u2014\u201dpetticoats and crinolines, Theremins and violins\u201d\u2014that hint at what \u201cHey Ya\u201d might have sounded like in 1927.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUSTIN ROBINSON &amp; THE MARY ANNETTES Bones for Tinder justinrobinsonandthemaryannettes.com &nbsp; From the Carter Family to Outkast, Robert Johnson to R.E.M., there\u2019s a long, proud tradition of weirdness in Southern music. A key feature has always been contradiction\u2014joy and pain, humor and dread, God and Satan\u2014and there\u2019s plenty to be found on Justin Robinson\u2019s debut [&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":[196,3075,3032,10159,3074,3076],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905"}],"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=4905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4907,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions\/4907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}