{"id":6723,"date":"2012-06-22T08:50:20","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T15:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=6723"},"modified":"2012-06-22T08:50:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T15:50:20","slug":"archie-powell-the-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/06\/archie-powell-the-exports\/","title":{"rendered":"ARCHIE POWELL &#038; THE EXPORTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6724\" title=\"ARCHIE-POWELL-AND-THE-EXPORTS-M-Review-May2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ARCHIE-POWELL-AND-THE-EXPORTS-M-Review-May2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ARCHIE-POWELL-AND-THE-EXPORTS-M-Review-May2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ARCHIE-POWELL-AND-THE-EXPORTS-M-Review-May2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>A<\/strong><strong>RCHIE POWELL &amp; THE EXPORTS<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Great Ideas in Action<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>archiepowellandtheexports.com<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0The big idea on <em>Great Ideas<\/em>is pairing crisp power-pop hooks with complex lyrics about careening into adulthood. Powell puts this particular notion in motion by spewing nervous words nearly as quickly as he strums his palm-muted chords. Conjuring riffs that somehow recall both the Stray Cats\u2019 \u201cStray Cat Strut\u201d and Richard Hell\u2019s \u201cBlank Generation\u201d\u2014twins in effect, if not intent\u2014the Chicago foursome bristles with post-collegiate angst, turning uncertainty and doubt into some of the most hummable songs anyone will release this year. \u201cKeep your head above or be subdued\/You know you\u2019re halfway dead no matter which you choose,\u201d Powell sings on \u201cJob Fair.\u201d He\u2019s in a tailspin, and he\u2019d like you to sing along.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARCHIE POWELL &amp; THE EXPORTS Great Ideas in Action archiepowellandtheexports.com \u00a0The big idea on Great Ideasis pairing crisp power-pop hooks with complex lyrics about careening into adulthood. Powell puts this particular notion in motion by spewing nervous words nearly as quickly as he strums his palm-muted chords. Conjuring riffs that somehow recall both the Stray [&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":[196,4007,3999,4001,4003,4000,10159,4006,3754,4002,4004,4005,4008],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723"}],"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=6723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6725,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions\/6725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}