{"id":7282,"date":"2012-09-10T21:25:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T04:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7282"},"modified":"2012-09-10T21:25:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T04:25:01","slug":"a-city-on-a-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/09\/a-city-on-a-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"A CITY ON A LAKE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7283\" title=\"A-CITY-ON-A-LAKE-M-Review-JulyAugust2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/A-CITY-ON-A-LAKE-M-Review-JulyAugust2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/A-CITY-ON-A-LAKE-M-Review-JulyAugust2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/A-CITY-ON-A-LAKE-M-Review-JulyAugust2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>A CITY ON A LAKE<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>A City on a Lake<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>acityonalake.com<\/p>\n<p>Written for a certain kind of 30-something\u2014the type that spent the early \u201900s in college listening to Coldplay, Death Cab for Cutie and maybe even John Mayer\u2019s <em>Room for Squares<\/em>\u2014this solo project from Brooklyn producer and multi-instrumentalist Alex Wong is an album about holding on. On \u201cThe Fighter\u201d he likens himself to a bloodied boxer, and if that metaphor suggests a toughness and bravado largely absent from these delicately constructed, electronically accented piano-pop tunes, the general idea holds. In his own soft-spoken way, Wong is a fighter: \u201cAre You Listening\u201d is about hanging tough in the big city, while \u201cTwenty Faces,\u201d the thesis, is about overcoming fear and snatching whatever passes for happiness.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A CITY ON A LAKE A City on a Lake acityonalake.com Written for a certain kind of 30-something\u2014the type that spent the early \u201900s in college listening to Coldplay, Death Cab for Cutie and maybe even John Mayer\u2019s Room for Squares\u2014this solo project from Brooklyn producer and multi-instrumentalist Alex Wong is an album about holding [&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":[4723,4724,196,4725,10159,4538],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282"}],"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=7282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7284,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282\/revisions\/7284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}