{"id":2608,"date":"2022-06-22T18:50:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T18:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2022-06-22T19:22:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T19:22:05","slug":"chase-status-what-came-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2608","title":{"rendered":"chase &#038; status &#8211; what came before"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><br \/>2022 : the generation gap narrows.<\/div>\n<div>\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>last sunday it was mk2s 19th birthday.<\/div>\n<div>in the lead up to the big day i was struggling to figure out what to get him.<\/div>\n<div>then a couple of weeks before, i heard that <b>chase &amp; status<\/b> had a new album coming out &#8211; &#8216;<em>what came before<\/em>&#8216;.<br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: initial; font-size: revert;\">i headed over to the bands official website to have a dig around the available options.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>bingo : long sleeve t-shirt + cd + signed print bundle.<\/div>\n<div>sorted.<\/div>\n<div>the bundle arrived on day of release,<br \/>i.e. the friday, just over a week before the all important sunday.<br \/>i genuinely felt good about my choice.<br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: initial; font-size: revert;\">however, the same sunday as his birthday also happened to be fathers day in the uk.<br \/><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: initial; font-size: revert;\">on the previous saturday, while mk2 was still in brighton, a package arrived at hq.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>was bloody obvious what it was as there was a reference number on the delivery sticker that was very similar to the reference number on the bundle package.<br \/>he had clearly ordered me the <strong>chase &amp; status<\/strong> cd edition for fathers day.<br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: initial; font-size: revert;\">thankfully the album is bloody brilliant.<br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: initial; font-size: revert;\">a fantastic mix of classic era d-n-b, 140 moods, massive basslines and tunes.<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial;\">as the <\/span><strong style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial;\">chase &amp; status<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial;\"> lads themselves say, it encapsulates their history in one short and succinct release.<\/span>\n<p><span style=\"color: initial; font-size: revert;\">oh, and mk2 loves the long sleeve and signed print, so result.<br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: initial; font-size: revert;\">but still, does feel kind of weird.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 : the generation gap narrows. \u00c2\u00a0 last sunday it was mk2s 19th birthday. in the lead up to the big day i was struggling to figure out what to get him. then a couple of weeks before, i heard that chase &amp; status had a new album coming out &#8211; &#8216;what came before&#8216;. i [&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-2608","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\/2608","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=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2618,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions\/2618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}