{"id":6704,"date":"2012-06-21T19:05:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T02:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=6704"},"modified":"2012-06-21T19:05:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T02:05:35","slug":"world-blanket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/06\/world-blanket\/","title":{"rendered":"WORLD BLANKET"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6705\" title=\"WORLD-BLANKET-M-Review-May2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/WORLD-BLANKET-M-Review-May2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/WORLD-BLANKET-M-Review-May2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/WORLD-BLANKET-M-Review-May2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>W<\/strong><strong>ORLD BLANKET<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>2012<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>worldblanket.com<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>When not fronting World Blanket, Mike Pomranz writes for Comedy Central and blogs about beer. It\u2019s funny, then, just how sober (in both senses of the word) he sounds on 2012, his Brooklyn-based band\u2019s first album since 2008. With more electric guitar and less violin, these songs would hit like bar-rock anthems. Instead they push ahead with pensive energy, their downcast strings contrasting nicely with Pomranz\u2019s lively strumming. Toward the end of \u201cTime Was,\u201d as violin and piano coalesce into dark clouds, Pomranz screams himself hoarse. Earlier in the same song he sings in a Bono-like falsetto about having \u201ca lot to believe in.\u201d While he probably means it, he\u2019s far too smart for unbridled optimism.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WORLD BLANKET 2012 worldblanket.com When not fronting World Blanket, Mike Pomranz writes for Comedy Central and blogs about beer. It\u2019s funny, then, just how sober (in both senses of the word) he sounds on 2012, his Brooklyn-based band\u2019s first album since 2008. With more electric guitar and less violin, these songs would hit like bar-rock [&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":[3979,196,10159,3754,3978,3980],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704"}],"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=6704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6706,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704\/revisions\/6706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}