{"id":1013,"date":"2008-08-08T22:30:17","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T21:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2008-08-09T00:45:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T23:45:55","slug":"late-of-the-pier-fantasy-black-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1013","title":{"rendered":"late of the pier &#8211; fantasy black channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>this years <strong>klaxons<\/strong> anyone ? <\/p>\n<p>well in so much that this debut has confounded those that expected this hyped band to fall flat on their arse and make a boring album. instead this is a madly off the wall blast of nu-grave electro with chunks of prog-rock thrown in to confuse the listener. tracks chip-and-pin on a regular basis, but rather than annoy, the effect is one of enjoyable aural dislocation, resulting in an album where you have no idea as to what&#8217;s coming next. <\/p>\n<p>of course the bands well known classics, and rips from <strong>gary numan <\/strong>( the still brilliant<strong> <\/strong><font color=\"#008080\">space and the woods<\/font>), are thrown out early on in the playlist, meaning that once you get past the superb single <font color=\"#008080\">heartbeat<\/font>, and the eccentrically over the top showtune piano break during <font color=\"#008080\">whitesnake<\/font>, the album does flag a little in the second half, as nothing comes close to these near-future pop classics.<\/p>\n<p>but, given that this is a short 40 or so minutes then who cares, when the album is just a wonderfully refreshing blast of dance floor directed indie, that has a desire to kick your unrequited love for dreary trad brit pop-n-rock into outer orbit once and for all. <\/p>\n<p>want to know more ? <\/p>\n<p>well open any of the current editions of fashion heavy old print media, this lot are bound to be getting some well deserved dayglo love somewhere within.<\/p>\n<p>bright, energetic, vibrant genre bending pop music that has no regard for the the old order, to which all i can do is shout&#160; : &quot;yes please !&quot;<\/p>\n<p><u>more detail<\/u> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lateofthepier.com\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this years klaxons anyone ? well in so much that this debut has confounded those that expected this hyped band to fall flat on their arse and make a boring album. instead this is a madly off the wall blast of nu-grave electro with chunks of prog-rock thrown in to confuse the listener. tracks chip-and-pin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}