{"id":7270,"date":"2012-09-10T21:19:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T04:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7270"},"modified":"2012-09-10T21:20:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T04:20:13","slug":"exrays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/09\/exrays\/","title":{"rendered":"EXRAY\u2019S"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7271\" title=\"EXRAYS-M-Review-JulyAugust2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/EXRAYS-M-Review-JulyAugust2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/EXRAYS-M-Review-JulyAugust2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/EXRAYS-M-Review-JulyAugust2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>EXRAY\u2019S<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Trust a Robot<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>exraysvision.com<\/p>\n<p>Do androids dream of electric pop? If they do, they might imagine a group like Exray\u2019s, two San Francisco dudes who use drum machines, keyboards and guitars to create wonderfully low-key robo-funk tunes. Much of their third album moves at a plodding clip reminiscent of Trio\u2019s \u201cDa Da Da,\u201d while the synths and muffled vocals place Beck at the helm of OMD\u2019s <em>Dazzle Ships<\/em>. After instrumental opener \u201cSomething Else\u201d establishes an eerie dystopian tone, \u201cYou Can Trust a Robot\u201d presents a seemingly more hopeful escape-from-earth fantasy. Elsewhere, it\u2019s less clear if Exray\u2019s are content, scared or sedated\u2014a case can be made for any of the three. A better case can be made for listening.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXRAY\u2019S Trust a Robot exraysvision.com Do androids dream of electric pop? If they do, they might imagine a group like Exray\u2019s, two San Francisco dudes who use drum machines, keyboards and guitars to create wonderfully low-key robo-funk tunes. Much of their third album moves at a plodding clip reminiscent of Trio\u2019s \u201cDa Da Da,\u201d while [&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":[196,4716,4715,4713,10159,4538,4714],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7270"}],"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=7270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7274,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7270\/revisions\/7274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}