{"id":9683,"date":"2013-05-08T00:40:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T07:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=9683"},"modified":"2013-05-08T00:40:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T07:40:46","slug":"johnny-marr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/05\/johnny-marr\/","title":{"rendered":"JOHNNY MARR"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9684\" alt=\"Johnny-Marr-M-Review-No25\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Johnny-Marr-M-Review-No25.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Johnny-Marr-M-Review-No25.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Johnny-Marr-M-Review-No25-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>JOHNNY MARR<\/h1>\n<p><b><i>The Messenger<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>[Sire]<\/p>\n<p>Since leaving the Smiths in 1987, guitarist Johnny Marr has made a career of playing nice with others. He\u2019s guested with such heavies as Talking Heads and Pet Shop Boys and even served stints with relative whippersnappers Modest Mouse and the Cribs. Through it all, he\u2019s seemingly made a conscious effort to avoid his signature sound\u2014that rolling, bittersweet jangle that defined not only the Smiths, but also indie rock as we know it. On his solo debut, Marr comes closer than ever to revisiting the music of his early 20s. It\u2019s not all clean, chiming guitars\u2014synths occasionally seep through the strumming, harking back to Electronic, Marr\u2019s side project with New Order\u2019s Bernard Sumner\u2014but <i>The Messenger<\/i> mostly delivers vigorously melodic, lyrically vague rockers. Were ex-Smiths foil Morrissey present, he\u2019d lend some profundity (and personality) to the proceedings, but instead, we\u2019re left with \u201cGenerate! Generate!\u201d\u2014Marr\u2019s best attempt to express whatever has reawakened his inner rock \u2019n\u2019 roller. \u2013Kenneth Patridge<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHNNY MARR The Messenger [Sire] Since leaving the Smiths in 1987, guitarist Johnny Marr has made a career of playing nice with others. He\u2019s guested with such heavies as Talking Heads and Pet Shop Boys and even served stints with relative whippersnappers Modest Mouse and the Cribs. Through it all, he\u2019s seemingly made a conscious [&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":[196,6449,6427,6451,6450],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9683"}],"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=9683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9686,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9683\/revisions\/9686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}