{"id":648,"date":"2010-08-11T11:58:02","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T18:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=648"},"modified":"2010-08-11T11:58:02","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T18:58:02","slug":"dr-dog-shame-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/dr-dog-shame-shame\/","title":{"rendered":"DR. DOG + Shame, Shame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Shame-shame-M2-Review-MarApr2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-649\" title=\"Shame-shame-M2-Review-MarApr2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Shame-shame-M2-Review-MarApr2010.jpg\" alt=\"Shame, Shame\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Shame-shame-M2-Review-MarApr2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Shame-shame-M2-Review-MarApr2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>D<\/strong><strong>R. DOG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Shame, Shame<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Anti-]<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Dog, to borrow a line from Brian Wilson, just wasn\u2019t made for these times. The Philly quintet has always been nostalgic, taking its cues from the Beach Boys, Beatles and Band\u2014and on its sixth album, the group once again bows to its heroes. That said, <em>Shame, Shame<\/em> is no psychedelic love-in. The songs are deceptively cheery, their \u201960s touchstones stoking a buzz their lyrics seek to kill. On such songs as \u201cStranger\u201d and \u201cWhere\u2019d All the Time Go?\u201d lead singers Scott McMicken and Toby Leaman wrestle with sorrow and regret, exploring various quarter-life crises through the music of their middle-aged parents. The approach works mostly because the instrumentation is inventive even at its most derivative, and the sad-sack lyrics are never too heavy to bear. Dr. Dog\u2019s young songwriters channel their fears into music that, by virtue of skirting straight-up revivalism, seems to exist outside of time. \u2013 KP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DR. DOG Shame, Shame [Anti-] Dr. Dog, to borrow a line from Brian Wilson, just wasn\u2019t made for these times. The Philly quintet has always been nostalgic, taking its cues from the Beach Boys, Beatles and Band\u2014and on its sixth album, the group once again bows to its heroes. That said, Shame, Shame is no [&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":[196,307,305,271,306],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648"}],"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=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}