{"id":9832,"date":"2013-05-08T10:27:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=9832"},"modified":"2013-05-08T10:27:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:27:21","slug":"todd-rundgren-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/05\/todd-rundgren-2\/","title":{"rendered":"TODD RUNDGREN"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><b><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9833\" alt=\"TODD-RUNDGREN-M-Review-No26\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/TODD-RUNDGREN-M-Review-No26.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/TODD-RUNDGREN-M-Review-No26.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/TODD-RUNDGREN-M-Review-No26-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>T<\/b><b>ODD RUNDGREN<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><b><i>State<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>[Esoteric Antenna\/Cherry Red]<\/p>\n<p>Following a recent release that delved into hard rock, fearsome blues and radically redefined versions of seminal songs he produced for others, <i>State<\/i> finds Rundgren testing his parameters yet again. Chameleon-like by nature, Rundgren revisits the synthesized setups and exotic experimentation that once marked his work with Utopia and later colored solo albums like <i>The<\/i> <i>Individualist<\/i> and <i>Nearly Human<\/i>. \u201cI am high \/ That\u2019s what I tell myself,\u201d Rundgren intones on ominous opener \u201cImagination,\u201d and given the percussive frenzy and ethereal effects that dominate the album, that psychedelic feeling can be easily explained. Nearly every song boasts electronic elements, nodding more to Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode and Berlin-era Bowie than to the relentless rockers and sublime ballads of his early work. Only \u201cPing Me\u201d finds him practicing his trademark wail, singing in his upper register with melodic instincts intact. Somewhat erratic, occasionally out of sync, <i>State<\/i> is one of Rundgren\u2019s more unusual offerings yet. \u2013Lee Zimmerman<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TODD RUNDGREN State [Esoteric Antenna\/Cherry Red] Following a recent release that delved into hard rock, fearsome blues and radically redefined versions of seminal songs he produced for others, State finds Rundgren testing his parameters yet again. Chameleon-like by nature, Rundgren revisits the synthesized setups and exotic experimentation that once marked his work with Utopia and [&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":[196,6535,6467,6534,3007],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9832"}],"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=9832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9835,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9832\/revisions\/9835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}