{"id":787,"date":"2007-12-10T11:56:40","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T10:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=787"},"modified":"2007-12-31T14:12:54","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T13:12:54","slug":"malakkai-ep1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"malakai &#8211; ep1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> <META content=\"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16544\" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE><\/STYLE> <\/HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>not sure about this i have to say, <\/FONT><FONT  face=Arial size=2>despite the fact the <EM><A  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malakai_(band)\">&#8216;band&#8217;<\/A><\/EM> are a local  crew and its all beautifully packaged.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the package arrived with absolutely no detail as to  who\/why\/what, yet everything is all very <EM>complete<\/EM>, with the results  being obviously destined for <EM>zane lowe\/<\/EM><STRONG>nme<\/STRONG> friendly  status.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>5 tracks in 16 minutes :&nbsp;2 of which are skits,  1 psych pop, 1 reggae, 1 indie dance rocker = game over.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the ep has got a kind of <STRONG>bees<\/STRONG> vs  <STRONG>aspects<\/STRONG> vs <STRONG>pepe deluxe<\/STRONG> vs  <STRONG>kasabian<\/STRONG> thing going on, thus lending the listener such reasons  as to wonder if the band are hedging their bets for chart action.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>the battle <\/EM>is traditional indie dance rock  but wanting to add a slice of 70s authenticity to the funk, <\/FONT><FONT  face=Arial size=2>while&nbsp;the song is ok, the vocals just grate for this  particular listener making total love hard to justify. the sweet laid back psych  pop of <EM>moonsurfing <\/EM>fares a little better, but given the current mood @  <EM>ireallylovemusic<\/EM> hq, the best has to be the laid back dubbed up pop of  <EM>words like humble, <\/EM>but even then its not a patch on the reggae tinged  glories by <STRONG>lsk.<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>from the credits, it&#8217;s clear the people behind  <STRONG>malakai <\/STRONG>love their well sourced samples, so there is no denying  it&#8217;s great to hear the use of scratchy samples, and turntable funk during the  nice-n-easy <EM>fading world <\/EM>given that such techniques within pop music  have been well and truly shoved onto the sidelines in recent years as everyone  rediscovers their love for old&nbsp;electropop records.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>a classic case of : <EM>one to watch in 2008  <\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>perhaps.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>more detail<\/EM> : <A  href=\"http:\/\/www.malakai.info\/\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BODY><\/HTML><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>not sure about this i have to say, despite the fact the &#8216;band&#8217; are a local crew and its all beautifully packaged. the package arrived with absolutely no detail as to who\/why\/what, yet everything is all very complete, with the results being obviously destined for zane lowe\/nme friendly status. 5 tracks in 16 minutes :&nbsp;2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singles-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}