{"id":812,"date":"2010-08-13T13:11:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T20:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=812"},"modified":"2010-08-16T07:34:39","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T14:34:39","slug":"paul-weller-wake-up-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/paul-weller-wake-up-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"PAUL WELLER + Wake Up the Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Wake-Up-the-Nation-M3-Review-May2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-813\" title=\"Wake-Up-the-Nation-M3-Review-May2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Wake-Up-the-Nation-M3-Review-May2010.jpg\" alt=\"Wake Up the Nation\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Wake-Up-the-Nation-M3-Review-May2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Wake-Up-the-Nation-M3-Review-May2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>P<\/strong><strong>AUL WELLER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Wake Up the Nation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Yep Roc]<\/p>\n<p>Each new Paul Weller album is cause for cautious optimism. He\u2019s never really made a <em>bad<\/em> record, but over the last three decades, he\u2019s failed to recapture the energy of his seminal mod-punk trio the Jam. On his 10th solo effort, Weller comes as close as he likely ever will to a Jam reunion. That\u2019s true in terms of personnel\u2014Jam bassist Bruce Foxton joins him on two tracks\u2014and performance. Despite moments of drowsy experimentation, the album is half full of hard-edged soul and psychedelic rock, executed with purpose. The better of the Foxton tunes, \u201cFast Car\/Slow Traffic,\u201d plays like a sequel to the Jam tirade \u201cLondon Traffic\u201d\u2014only this time, Weller is behind the wheel and heading for the beach instead of pouting from the curb. His is a uniquely middle-age rage, as further evidenced by the anti-Facebook title track. This is not the cocksure kid of yore, but Weller still cranks his guitar and speaks his mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Kenneth Partridge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAUL WELLER Wake Up the Nation [Yep Roc] Each new Paul Weller album is cause for cautious optimism. He\u2019s never really made a bad record, but over the last three decades, he\u2019s failed to recapture the energy of his seminal mod-punk trio the Jam. On his 10th solo effort, Weller comes as close as he [&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":[196,70,441,442,398],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812"}],"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=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}