{"id":1479,"date":"2010-04-09T18:02:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T18:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2010-04-09T18:09:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T18:09:27","slug":"grand-mal-clandestine-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1479","title":{"rendered":"grand mal : clandestine songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/Grand_Mal__Clandestine_Songs_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Grand_Mal_-_Clandestine_Songs_cover\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Grand_Mal_-_Clandestine_Songs_cover\" src=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/Grand_Mal__Clandestine_Songs_cover_thumb.jpg\" width=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>yes. yes. yes.<\/p>\n<p>i realise that the groove of the ireallylovemusic blog is erratic and a mess. <\/p>\n<p>one minute it&#8217;s all about sample based dance pop, the next fucked up dub, before swinging over to some long forgotten pop gem.<\/p>\n<p>sorry, i cant explain how and why these things happen the way they do, tis just my messed up head and various movements of the inner coil.<\/p>\n<p>so, given that i have many times said how guitar based rock-n-roll does little for my spirits these days, why is it that news of a new <strong>grand mal<\/strong> album makes my heart spring with joy ? <\/p>\n<p>well, for a start, the mainstay of the band, bill whitten, has a vocal style that&#8217;s both lazy and warm, but still with that edge of nonchalant slacker cool, while using the best fuzzed up guitars this side of a lost <strong>bowie<\/strong> classic. <\/p>\n<p>not to mention the fact that bill often calls upon his long standing mastering\/producing buddy dave fridmann meaning that the results always sound gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p>the last i heard of <strong>grand mal<\/strong> was when i received an email from bill a few years ago with a pointer to a few demos, one of which was called <font color=\"#008080\">clandestine song<\/font> which revised the rocking sound of their <font color=\"#008080\">bad timing<\/font> album, as opposed to his more mellow side that was given an airing on the lost classic, <font color=\"#008080\">love is the best con in town<\/font> (trust me, one day <u>mojo<\/u> will do one of their buried treasure features on the album). <\/p>\n<p>either way, i can&#8217;t wait to hear the finished result.<\/p>\n<p><u>album track listing :<\/u> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008080\">1 unwholesome visions     <br \/>2 lower yer heart      <br \/>3 you mean well      <br \/>4 laugh it off       <br \/>5 call my name      <br \/>6 us vs them      <br \/>7 his death was our punishment      <br \/>8 praxis tape      <br \/>9 children of light      <br \/>10 done my head in      <br \/>11 guitars strum in dejection      <br \/>12 burn the world      <br \/>13 drink &#8217;em up<\/font><\/p>\n<p><u>more detail<\/u> : <a href=\"http:\/\/clandestineband.blogspot.com\/\">blog<\/a> &#8211; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grooverrecordings.com\/?p=160\">groover records<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; &#160; yes. yes. yes. i realise that the groove of the ireallylovemusic blog is erratic and a mess. one minute it&#8217;s all about sample based dance pop, the next fucked up dub, before swinging over to some long forgotten pop gem. sorry, i cant explain how and why these things happen the way they [&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-1479","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\/1479","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=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1480,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}