{"id":864,"date":"2010-08-13T16:25:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T23:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=864"},"modified":"2010-08-13T16:25:15","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T23:25:15","slug":"rooney-eureka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/rooney-eureka\/","title":{"rendered":"Rooney + Eureka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Eureka-M3-Review-May2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-865\" title=\"Eureka-M3-Review-May2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Eureka-M3-Review-May2010.jpg\" alt=\"Eureka\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Eureka-M3-Review-May2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Eureka-M3-Review-May2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>R<\/strong><strong>ooney<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Eureka<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rooney-band.com\" target=\"_blank\">rooney-band.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Productivity doesn\u2019t necessarily come easily to Los Angeles-based Rooney\u2014they\u2019ve managed only three albums in 10 years, and they took three separate stabs at recording their second. That places high expectations on this new outing, and the band clears the bar nicely. Rooney aspires to pop perfection and often succeeds, with tuneful influences like Cheap Trick, the Raspberries and Badfinger pushed clearly to the fore. Given those role models, it\u2019s only natural that <em>Eureka<\/em> is infused with a giddy romanticism that\u2019s evident from the outset. \u201cCan\u2019t Get Enough,\u201d \u201cThe Hunch,\u201d \u201cI Don\u2019t Wanna Lose You\u201d and \u201cYou\u2019re Not What I\u2019m Looking For\u201d essay sentiments as simple as the titles suggest, but they do so at high velocity and with an infectious enthusiasm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rooney Eureka rooney-band.com Productivity doesn\u2019t necessarily come easily to Los Angeles-based Rooney\u2014they\u2019ve managed only three albums in 10 years, and they took three separate stabs at recording their second. That places high expectations on this new outing, and the band clears the bar nicely. Rooney aspires to pop perfection and often succeeds, with tuneful influences [&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":[196,479,10159,70,478,480],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864"}],"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=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}