{"id":8824,"date":"2013-02-06T01:55:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T08:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=8824"},"modified":"2013-02-06T01:56:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T08:56:29","slug":"being-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/02\/being-there\/","title":{"rendered":"BEING THERE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8825\" title=\"BEING-THERE-M-Review-No24\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/BEING-THERE-M-Review-No24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/BEING-THERE-M-Review-No24.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/BEING-THERE-M-Review-No24-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>BEING THERE<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Breaking Away<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>facebook.com\/beingthereband<\/p>\n<p>The thrill of being young and confused and knowing a few chords belongs to no decade or country, and in that sense, there\u2019s nothing unusual about this London foursome. Like fellow U.K. group Yuck, whose self-titled 2011 debut marked something of an indie-rock paradigm shift, Being There does fuzzy, pleasantly disaffected \u201990s-style alternative. The reference points are mostly American\u2014Dinosaur Jr., Yo La Tengo, etc.\u2014though highlights \u201cPunch the Clock\u201d and \u201cThe Radio\u201d recall the washed-out \u201960s revivalism of the Jesus and Mary Chain and romantic synth-pop of late-\u201980s Cure hits, respectively. \u201cWill we feel like this tomorrow?\u201d singer Sammy Lewis asks on \u201cTomorrow,\u201d savoring one of those teen moments not meant to last.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEING THERE Breaking Away facebook.com\/beingthereband The thrill of being young and confused and knowing a few chords belongs to no decade or country, and in that sense, there\u2019s nothing unusual about this London foursome. Like fellow U.K. group Yuck, whose self-titled 2011 debut marked something of an indie-rock paradigm shift, Being There does fuzzy, pleasantly [&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":[196,5922,5923,5924,10159,5885],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8824"}],"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=8824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8827,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8824\/revisions\/8827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}