{"id":7278,"date":"2012-09-10T21:23:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T04:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7278"},"modified":"2012-09-10T21:23:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T04:23:24","slug":"the-blakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/09\/the-blakes\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BLAKES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7279\" title=\"THE-BLAKES-M-Review-JulyAugust2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/THE-BLAKES-M-Review-JulyAugust2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/THE-BLAKES-M-Review-JulyAugust2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/THE-BLAKES-M-Review-JulyAugust2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>THE BLAKES<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Art of Losses<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>theblakesband.com<\/p>\n<p>This Seattle trio cut its latest in the wilds of Maine, where the idea was to unplug from the modern world. Off went the internet, and on a handful of tracks, so did the guitar effects\u2014more or less. \u201cBlack Carnation\u201d and \u201cParalysis\u201d are runaway rockers reminiscent of Dylan or the Kinks, and both give the impression of a band bashing away in a barn. Elsewhere, the Blakes try throbbing New Wave (\u201cNarwhal\u201d) and get atmospheric with their guitars, edging\u2014U2 pun intended\u2014\u201cDark Is the Night\u201d and \u201cOld Gal\u201d into stadium territory. <em>Art of Losses<\/em> works because they do garage and dance rock equally well. Now that they\u2019re back online, they\u2019re bound to read some good reviews.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE BLAKES Art of Losses theblakesband.com This Seattle trio cut its latest in the wilds of Maine, where the idea was to unplug from the modern world. Off went the internet, and on a handful of tracks, so did the guitar effects\u2014more or less. \u201cBlack Carnation\u201d and \u201cParalysis\u201d are runaway rockers reminiscent of Dylan or [&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":[196,4721,10159,4538,4720,4722],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7278"}],"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=7278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7281,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7278\/revisions\/7281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}