{"id":6749,"date":"2012-06-22T11:05:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T18:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=6749"},"modified":"2012-06-22T11:06:10","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T18:06:10","slug":"violens-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/06\/violens-2\/","title":{"rendered":"VIOLENS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6750\" title=\"VIOLENS-M-Review-May2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/VIOLENS-M-Review-May2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/VIOLENS-M-Review-May2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/VIOLENS-M-Review-May2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>V<\/strong><strong>IOLENS<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>True<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Slumberland]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Two prevailing indie trends of the day come together on Violens\u2019 second album\u2014with sexy, sexy results. The guitars are crisp, cool and prismatic; set against bouncing bass and snappy beats, they recall the finest U.K. jangle bands of the \u201980s. But mastermind Jorge Elbrecht paints from memory, and memories are unreliable. His songs are abstractions, and thus the album\u2019s leadoff single and not-quite-title-cut \u201cTotally True\u201d comes off like a Smiths tune that\u2019s been sped up, slowed down or left in the sun to warp. It\u2019s very much in keeping with the \u201chalf-remembered\u201d wooze-pop aesthetic of Washed Out and Neon Indian, acts that set the tone for much of last year\u2019s indie-rock. Bringing these disparate strands together is the attitude. With Elbrecht\u2019s breathy George Michael vocals and the trio\u2019s superbly suave synths, Violens cruise with finesse. \u2013Kenneth Partridge<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIOLENS True [Slumberland] Two prevailing indie trends of the day come together on Violens\u2019 second album\u2014with sexy, sexy results. The guitars are crisp, cool and prismatic; set against bouncing bass and snappy beats, they recall the finest U.K. jangle bands of the \u201980s. But mastermind Jorge Elbrecht paints from memory, and memories are unreliable. His [&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":[196,1403,3754,4038,4037,1400],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749"}],"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=6749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6752,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749\/revisions\/6752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}