{"id":5650,"date":"2012-04-24T07:41:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T14:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=5650"},"modified":"2012-04-24T07:41:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T14:41:48","slug":"brendan-benson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/04\/brendan-benson\/","title":{"rendered":"BRENDAN BENSON"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5651\" title=\"BRENDAN-BENSON-M-Review-MarApr2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/BRENDAN-BENSON-M-Review-MarApr2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/BRENDAN-BENSON-M-Review-MarApr2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/BRENDAN-BENSON-M-Review-MarApr2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>B<\/strong><strong>RENDAN BENSON<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>What Kind of World<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Readymade]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>On <em>What Kind of World<\/em>, Jack White\u2019s Raconteurs partner Brendan Benson puts on his solo-artist hat and taps suitably homemade \u201970s vibes ranging from rock-star riffing to AM-gold smoothness. For every electric guitar solo, there\u2019s a piano ballad to counter. There is a little genre-shifting in the songs\u2019 accents; the horns on \u201cNo One Else but You\u201d sound as if they might segue into a chorus of the Beatles\u2019 \u201cCarry That Weight\u201d at any moment, while Benson rolls out a little country twang on album closer \u201cOn the Fence.\u201d While Benson has mellowed a little as a lyricist, his themes remain consistent. His music continues to be filled with existential crises\u2014musings about the nature of happiness, the lure of family (versus the more facile conceits of love and attraction that are usually the stuff of pop music) and just what kind of world we live in. \u2013Amanda Farah<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRENDAN BENSON What Kind of World [Readymade] On What Kind of World, Jack White\u2019s Raconteurs partner Brendan Benson puts on his solo-artist hat and taps suitably homemade \u201970s vibes ranging from rock-star riffing to AM-gold smoothness. For every electric guitar solo, there\u2019s a piano ballad to counter. There is a little genre-shifting in the songs\u2019 [&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":[196,3376,3303,3378,3377],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650"}],"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=5650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5652,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650\/revisions\/5652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}