{"id":6988,"date":"2012-08-02T02:10:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T09:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=6988"},"modified":"2012-08-02T02:10:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T09:10:23","slug":"neneh-cherry-the-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/08\/neneh-cherry-the-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"NENEH CHERRY &#038; THE THING"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6989\" title=\"NENEH-CHERRY-and-THE-THING-M-Review-June2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/NENEH-CHERRY-and-THE-THING-M-Review-June2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/NENEH-CHERRY-and-THE-THING-M-Review-June2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/NENEH-CHERRY-and-THE-THING-M-Review-June2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>NENEH CHERRY<br \/>\n&amp; THE THING<\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>The Cherry Thing<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>smalltownsupersound.com<\/p>\n<p>Most artists never quite reach the free-jazz-meets-pop stage of their careers\u2014but then, most don\u2019t have the pedigree of Neneh Cherry. Born in Sweden, this stepdaughter of jazz trumpeter Don Cherry came up in London\u2019s post-punk scene doing stints with groups like the Slits before emerging as a singing, rapping pop star in the late \u201980s. Since her 1988 smash \u201cBuffalo Stance,\u201d her output has grown increasingly eclectic. Here she goes way, way out, joining up with Stockholm jazz trio the Thing. The set opens with \u201cCashback,\u201d Cherry\u2019s rant about feeling like a commodity. While she cages her anger and sings with confidence and soul, Mats Gustafsson plays a rageful, sputtering saxophone, matching Paal Nilssen-Love\u2019s seething drums. The instruments prove just as appropriately cacophonous on \u201cDirt,\u201d originally by punk godfathers the Stooges. Gustaffson starts calmly on another cannily chosen cover, Suicide\u2019s \u201cDream Baby Dream,\u201d following Ingebrigt H\u00e5ker Flaten\u2019s \u201950s bassline\u2014but he won\u2019t be held down for long. As Cherry repeats, \u201cKeep those dreams burning forever,\u201d the sax man makes like a reentering space shuttle, burning with a skronky intensity that defines <em>The Cherry Thing<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NENEH CHERRY &amp; THE THING The Cherry Thing smalltownsupersound.com Most artists never quite reach the free-jazz-meets-pop stage of their careers\u2014but then, most don\u2019t have the pedigree of Neneh Cherry. Born in Sweden, this stepdaughter of jazz trumpeter Don Cherry came up in London\u2019s post-punk scene doing stints with groups like the Slits before emerging as [&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":[196,10159,4300,4424,4425,4426],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6988"}],"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=6988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6991,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6988\/revisions\/6991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}