{"id":995,"date":"2010-08-16T11:54:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T18:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=995"},"modified":"2010-08-16T11:54:39","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T18:54:39","slug":"hoodoo-gurus-purity-of-essence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/hoodoo-gurus-purity-of-essence\/","title":{"rendered":"HOODOO GURUS + Purity of Essence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Purity-of-Essence-M-Review-June2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-996\" title=\"Purity-of-Essence-M-Review-June2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Purity-of-Essence-M-Review-June2010.jpg\" alt=\"Purity of Essence\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Purity-of-Essence-M-Review-June2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Purity-of-Essence-M-Review-June2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>H<\/strong><strong>OODOO GURUS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Purity of Essence<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hoodoogurus.net\" target=\"_blank\">hoodoogurus.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While their r\u00e9sum\u00e9 encompasses three decades and nine albums, the Hoodoo Gurus evince an energy that should make bands half their age envious. Co-producing with Charles Fisher (and employing veteran producer Ed Stasium for the mix), the group turns <em>Purity of Essence<\/em> into a blistering tour de force, as formidable a rock \u2019n\u2019 roll record as anything in recent memory. \u201cCrackin\u2019 Up,\u201d \u201cBurnt Orange,\u201d \u201cI Hope You\u2019re Happy\u201d and \u201cLet Me In\u201d boast hooks and refrains that fairly leap out of the speakers. Like fellow Aussies the Saints and Midnight Oil, they revel in bold defiance\u2014as evidenced by the intensity in the Stones-like sizzle of \u201c1968\u201d and \u201cAshamed on Me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOODOO GURUS Purity of Essence hoodoogurus.net While their r\u00e9sum\u00e9 encompasses three decades and nine albums, the Hoodoo Gurus evince an energy that should make bands half their age envious. Co-producing with Charles Fisher (and employing veteran producer Ed Stasium for the mix), the group turns Purity of Essence into a blistering tour de force, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,590,592,10159,80,591],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995"}],"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=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}