{"id":5805,"date":"2012-04-25T07:56:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T14:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=5805"},"modified":"2012-04-25T07:56:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T14:56:45","slug":"unicycle-loves-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/04\/unicycle-loves-you\/","title":{"rendered":"UNICYCLE LOVES YOU"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5806\" title=\"UNICYCLE-LOVES-YOU-M-Review-MarApr2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/UNICYCLE-LOVES-YOU-M-Review-MarApr2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/UNICYCLE-LOVES-YOU-M-Review-MarApr2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/UNICYCLE-LOVES-YOU-M-Review-MarApr2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>U<\/strong><strong>NICYCLE LOVES YOU<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Failure<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>unicyclelovesyou.com<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps intended as film criticism, \u201cWow Wave Cinema,\u201d the second track on the third album from this Chicago slacker-punk trio, also applies to rock \u2019n\u2019 roll. \u201cIt\u2019s nothing new,\u201d frontman Jim Carroll sings. \u201cIt\u2019s just called by a different name.\u201d Twenty years ago, the band\u2019s loveably skuzzy tunes would have been tagged \u201calt-rock.\u201d Today, they\u2019re \u201cneo-\u201d something-or-other, even though the trifecta of fuzzy guitars, cryptic moping and bubblegum melody has never really gone out of style. Carroll knows his Pixies, Pumpkins and Sonic Youth, but he\u2019s got no reason to apologize for a lack of originality. For ennui (\u201cPiranha\u201d) and scrappy hopefulness (\u201cGarbage Dump\u201d) of this particular variety, there may be no higher form of musical expression.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNICYCLE LOVES YOU Failure unicyclelovesyou.com Perhaps intended as film criticism, \u201cWow Wave Cinema,\u201d the second track on the third album from this Chicago slacker-punk trio, also applies to rock \u2019n\u2019 roll. \u201cIt\u2019s nothing new,\u201d frontman Jim Carroll sings. \u201cIt\u2019s just called by a different name.\u201d Twenty years ago, the band\u2019s loveably skuzzy tunes would have [&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":[196,3505,10159,3303,3504,3506],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805"}],"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=5805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5808,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions\/5808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}