{"id":918,"date":"2010-08-16T09:34:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T16:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=918"},"modified":"2010-08-16T09:34:53","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T16:34:53","slug":"the-dead-weather-sea-of-cowards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/the-dead-weather-sea-of-cowards\/","title":{"rendered":"THE DEAD WEATHER + Sea of Cowards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sea-of-Cowards-M-Review-June2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-919\" title=\"Sea-of-Cowards-M-Review-June2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sea-of-Cowards-M-Review-June2010.jpg\" alt=\"Sea of Cowards\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sea-of-Cowards-M-Review-June2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sea-of-Cowards-M-Review-June2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>T<\/strong><strong>HE DEAD WEATHER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Sea of Cowards<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Third Man\/Warner Bros.]<\/p>\n<p>The Dead Weather was never going to be a song band. The supergroup\u2019s 2009 debut <em>Horehound<\/em> seemed mostly an opportunity for White Stripes singer and guitarist Jack White to climb behind the drums and lay down some of the darkest, most depraved blues grooves imaginable with the help of three like-minded friends. <em>Sea of Cowards<\/em>, the quartet\u2019s sophomore disc, is even less rooted in traditional songwriting than its predecessor. Each track seems to have been built in roughly the same order: riff, sneer, beat, hook. As voiced by singer Alison Mosshart of similar-sounding duo the Kills, the Dead Weather\u2019s lyrics amount to vague threats and sinister sex talk. Guitarist Dean Fertita and bassist Jack Lawrence provide blunt, fuzzy riffs, horror-show organ and post-apocalyptic synths to match. Set against White\u2019s heavy-funk attack, the songs are greasy, anxious and thoroughly swinging.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013KP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE DEAD WEATHER Sea of Cowards [Third Man\/Warner Bros.] The Dead Weather was never going to be a song band. The supergroup\u2019s 2009 debut Horehound seemed mostly an opportunity for White Stripes singer and guitarist Jack White to climb behind the drums and lay down some of the darkest, most depraved blues grooves imaginable with [&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":[196,80,526,525,527,528],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918"}],"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=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}