{"id":944,"date":"2010-08-16T10:12:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T17:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=944"},"modified":"2010-08-16T10:12:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T17:12:23","slug":"the-constellations-southern-gothic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/the-constellations-southern-gothic\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CONSTELLATIONS + Southern Gothic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Southern-Gothic-April-Uprising-M-Review-June2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-945\" title=\"Southern-Gothic-April-Uprising-M-Review-June2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Southern-Gothic-April-Uprising-M-Review-June2010.jpg\" alt=\"Southern Gothic\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Southern-Gothic-April-Uprising-M-Review-June2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Southern-Gothic-April-Uprising-M-Review-June2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>T<\/strong><strong>HE CONSTELLATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Southern Gothic<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Virgin]<\/p>\n<p>The underbelly of after-hours Atlanta serves as ground zero for the seedy scenarios on <em>Southern Gothic<\/em>, the debut from that city\u2019s eight-piece Constellations (re-released on a major after an earlier indie run). But the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce can chill\u2014what happens here could happen most anywhere. When the strutting, magnetic vocalist Elijah Jones intones, \u201cIf you really want to live\/Gotta be ready to die\u201d in \u201cLove Is a Murder\u201d (which features Gnarls Barkley\u2019s Cee-Lo Green guesting), he could just as easily be singing to your sister in Omaha. At times <em>Southern Gothic<\/em> does tend to tilt toward the heavy-handed and border on the self-important, but even if you were to tune out its words altogether\u2014and that\u2019d be a mistake, because when they\u2019re good, they\u2019re great\u2014the Constellations\u2019 seamless assimilation of frothy \u201980s-esque synth-pop, multilayered neo-psych, insistent dance beats and Americana earthiness will win you over.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013JT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE CONSTELLATIONS Southern Gothic [Virgin] The underbelly of after-hours Atlanta serves as ground zero for the seedy scenarios on Southern Gothic, the debut from that city\u2019s eight-piece Constellations (re-released on a major after an earlier indie run). But the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce can chill\u2014what happens here could happen most anywhere. When the strutting, magnetic [&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":[196,80,548,547,549],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944"}],"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=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}