{"id":5781,"date":"2012-04-25T07:40:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T14:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=5781"},"modified":"2012-04-25T07:40:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T14:40:39","slug":"sick-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/04\/sick-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"SICK FRIEND"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5782\" title=\"SICK-FRIEND-M-Review-MarApr2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/SICK-FRIEND-M-Review-MarApr2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/SICK-FRIEND-M-Review-MarApr2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/SICK-FRIEND-M-Review-MarApr2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>S<\/strong><strong>ICK FRIEND<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>The Draft Dodger<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>sickfriend.bandcamp.com<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Since the emergence of the White Stripes and the Black Keys, the indie world has been deluged with guitar-and-drum duos. Sick Friend would seem to offer more of the same, but on their debut these thoughtful Canadians drop bittersweet synth lines and straitlaced rhythms. Singer and guitarist Michael O\u2019Brien has a soul-baring falsetto informed by the Dears and Of Montreal, but on the excellent title cut he moves beyond such influences and sings himself breathless, unfurling lines like a rapper. \u201cWhy would I wake up now, when you\u2019re finally letting me win?\u201d he asks on \u201cSleep Late.\u201d More than just another expression of 20-something guitar-dude malaise, this electro-tinged tune is a sweet dream set to music.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SICK FRIEND The Draft Dodger sickfriend.bandcamp.com Since the emergence of the White Stripes and the Black Keys, the indie world has been deluged with guitar-and-drum duos. Sick Friend would seem to offer more of the same, but on their debut these thoughtful Canadians drop bittersweet synth lines and straitlaced rhythms. Singer and guitarist Michael O\u2019Brien [&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":[196,10159,3303,3483,3485,3484],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781"}],"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=5781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5783,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781\/revisions\/5783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}