{"id":8395,"date":"2012-12-28T03:22:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T10:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=8395"},"modified":"2012-12-28T03:22:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T10:22:50","slug":"monarch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/12\/monarch\/","title":{"rendered":"MONARCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8396\" title=\"MONARCH-M-Review-NOV-2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MONARCH-M-Review-NOV-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MONARCH-M-Review-NOV-2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MONARCH-M-Review-NOV-2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>MONARCH<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Amber Waves of Cain<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>monarch-the-band.com<\/p>\n<p>As Monarch surveys their kingdom\u2014newfangled cities beset with old-timey problems, populated by single moms, drug addicts and Joe Six-Packs\u2014they can\u2019t help but smile. The L.A. quintet plays smart, tragicomic country rock\u2014all reverb, twang, shuffling beats and spur-sharp wit. As frontman Jay Sosnicki spins his sorry tales, he neither pities nor mocks the folks he sings about. He knows the world is a complicated place, and while \u201cKeith\u2019s Heartbreak,\u201d with its tawdry blinking-neon sax, is a grim look at New York City guttersnipes, honky-tonk highlight \u201cCompany Time\u201d offers clock-punchers everywhere some hilariously spot-on advice for time management. Hint: It involves the workplace bathroom.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONARCH Amber Waves of Cain monarch-the-band.com As Monarch surveys their kingdom\u2014newfangled cities beset with old-timey problems, populated by single moms, drug addicts and Joe Six-Packs\u2014they can\u2019t help but smile. The L.A. quintet plays smart, tragicomic country rock\u2014all reverb, twang, shuffling beats and spur-sharp wit. As frontman Jay Sosnicki spins his sorry tales, he neither pities [&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":[196,5643,10159,5642,5644,5475],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395"}],"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=8395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8398,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395\/revisions\/8398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}