{"id":8853,"date":"2013-02-06T15:14:25","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T22:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=8853"},"modified":"2013-02-06T15:14:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T22:14:25","slug":"free-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/02\/free-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"FREE ENERGY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8854\" title=\"FREE-ENERGY-M-Review-No24\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/FREE-ENERGY-M-Review-No24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/FREE-ENERGY-M-Review-No24.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/FREE-ENERGY-M-Review-No24-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>F<\/strong><strong>REE ENERGY<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Love Sign<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Free Energy Records]<\/p>\n<p>These Philadelphia rockers started strong on their 2010 debut, a ridiculously catchy collection of power-pop riffs, handclaps and harmony vocals. They\u2019ve only gotten better on the follow-up, a joyous set of songs about dancing all night and making out. It sounds simplistic, but there\u2019s greater nuance on<em> Love Sign<\/em>. With help from producer John Agnello, the band toys with slower jams and makes room for shiny cascades of synthesizers. Opener \u201cElectric Fever\u201d sets the tone with crackling noise that resolves into a fist-pumping riff and \u201cwhoa-oh\u201d vocals over harmony guitars and a spare, lively beat. Handclaps reverberate through a surge of guitars and synths on \u201cGirls Want Rock,\u201d cowbell helps propel \u201cBackscratcher,\u201d and \u201cDance All Night\u201d is the perfect couples-skate jam.<em> Love Sign<\/em> is the rare second album that improves on what was great about the first one. It\u2019s not fancy\u2014just a fun collection that embodies the beating heart of rock \u2019n\u2019 roll. \u2013Eric R. Danton<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FREE ENERGY Love Sign [Free Energy Records] These Philadelphia rockers started strong on their 2010 debut, a ridiculously catchy collection of power-pop riffs, handclaps and harmony vocals. They\u2019ve only gotten better on the follow-up, a joyous set of songs about dancing all night and making out. It sounds simplistic, but there\u2019s greater nuance on Love [&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":[196,5942,5944,5885,5943],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853"}],"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=8853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8855,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853\/revisions\/8855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}