{"id":7620,"date":"2012-10-29T14:46:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T21:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7620"},"modified":"2012-10-29T14:47:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T21:47:00","slug":"band-of-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/10\/band-of-horses\/","title":{"rendered":"BAND OF HORSES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7621\" title=\"BAND-OF-HORSES-M-Review-SeptOct-2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/BAND-OF-HORSES-M-Review-SeptOct-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/BAND-OF-HORSES-M-Review-SeptOct-2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/BAND-OF-HORSES-M-Review-SeptOct-2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>B<\/strong><strong>AND OF HORSES<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Mirage Rock<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Columbia]<\/p>\n<p>Band of Horses wasted no time following up 2010\u2019s Grammy-nominated <em>Infinite Arms<\/em>, and on <em>Mirage Rock<\/em>, the intention to move forward is clear. The band focuses on ramshackle alt-country, seldom playing straight rock songs and occasionally forgoing the \u201calternative\u201d altogether. After recording their first three albums with Phil Ek, the group recruited producer Glyn Johns. The slight country twang frontman Ben Bridwell has always exhibited is more pronounced, and it\u2019s now echoed in the guitars\u2014particularly on the acoustic \u201cLong Vows\u201d and lead single \u201cKnock Knock.\u201d But even if the group has embraced Americana in a big way, their lyrics center on the responsibilities of 30-somethings in the modern world\u2014and the question of whether this modern world is hurtling toward destruction. Band of Horses haven\u2019t completely shifted away from their indie rock roots. They\u2019ve honed in on their country heritage with affection rather than affectation. \u2013Amanda Farah<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAND OF HORSES Mirage Rock [Columbia] Band of Horses wasted no time following up 2010\u2019s Grammy-nominated Infinite Arms, and on Mirage Rock, the intention to move forward is clear. The band focuses on ramshackle alt-country, seldom playing straight rock songs and occasionally forgoing the \u201calternative\u201d altogether. After recording their first three albums with Phil Ek, [&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":[196,4629,389,5078,5077],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7620"}],"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=7620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7624,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7620\/revisions\/7624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}