{"id":9800,"date":"2013-05-08T10:14:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=9800"},"modified":"2013-05-08T10:15:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:15:39","slug":"face-to-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/05\/face-to-face\/","title":{"rendered":"FACE TO FACE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9802\" alt=\"FAce-to-face-M-Review-No26\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/FAce-to-face-M-Review-No26.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/FAce-to-face-M-Review-No26.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/FAce-to-face-M-Review-No26-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>FACE TO FACE<\/h1>\n<p><b><i>Three Chords and a Half Truth<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>[Rise]<\/p>\n<p>Anyone craving a bite of \u201990s punk should be moderately satiated by this California quartet\u2019s eighth studio album and second since reforming in 2008 after a four-year hiatus. The Face to Face sound circa 2013 is nearly indistinguishable from that of 20 years ago, even if it lacks the rawness heard on classics like \u201cDisconnected\u201d and \u201cI Used to Think.\u201d Still, frontman Trever Keith hasn\u2019t lost his sarcasm. On \u201cRight as Rain,\u201d for example, the music is upbeat, but once Keith digs in with \u201cYou couldn\u2019t care about me any less,\u201d you know it\u2019s more a punk-rock pity party than a hard-rock romance. As always, Keith\u2019s vocals recall Social Distortion\u2019s Mike Ness and Bad Religion\u2019s Greg Graffin, and guitarist Chad Yaro still blends power chords with the best of them. But the album lacks true rage. With its overly drawn-out vocals and slick instrumentation, <i>Three Chords<\/i> feels only halfway there. \u2013Shauna Farnell<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FACE TO FACE Three Chords and a Half Truth [Rise] Anyone craving a bite of \u201990s punk should be moderately satiated by this California quartet\u2019s eighth studio album and second since reforming in 2008 after a four-year hiatus. The Face to Face sound circa 2013 is nearly indistinguishable from that of 20 years ago, even [&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":[6521,6523,6522],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9800"}],"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=9800"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9806,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9800\/revisions\/9806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}