{"id":17593,"date":"2019-04-09T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=17593"},"modified":"2019-04-16T12:30:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T19:30:46","slug":"new-music-revue-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/04\/09\/new-music-revue-4\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: Clowns prove diversity is in their nature with new album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Clowns-Nature-Nurture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Clowns-Nature-Nurture-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Clowns-Nature-Nurture-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Clowns-Nature-Nurture-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Clowns-Nature-Nurture-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Clowns-Nature-Nurture-110x110.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Clowns-Nature-Nurture-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Clowns-Nature-Nurture-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Clowns-Nature-Nurture.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Clowns<br><em>Nature\/Nurture<\/em><br>(Fat Wreck Chords)<br>3.5\/5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second Clowns\u2019\u00a0<em>Nature\/Nurture<\/em> started I could only think one thing: how awesome was the soundtrack to\u00a0<em>Tony Hawk\u2019s Underground 2<\/em>? This is exactly the type of music percolating from your PlayStation 2 while you throw tomatos at a half-naked Phil Margera in Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Nature\/Nurture&nbsp;<\/em>is the fourth album from Clowns, a punk band from Melbourne, Australia that does not conform to the genre. Although the nature of this album may be punk, it\u2019s nurtured with a miscellaneous bundle of styles that work great together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI Wanna Feel Again\u201d shows that Stevie Williams\u2019 vocal range is reminiscent of the late Chester Bennington of Linkin Park, while the song itself sounds like a fast, harsh Defeater tune. Clowns then forces the listener to do a double-take on the album\u2019s last track, \u201cNurture.\u201d The song features a timid drum beat that poses the question \u201cHoly shit, is this \u2018Break on Through\u2019 by The Doors?\u201d before it breaks on though to an odd mash-up of twangy jingles and dense guitar riffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ClownsNature\/Nurture(Fat Wreck Chords)3.5\/5 The second Clowns\u2019\u00a0Nature\/Nurture started I could only think one thing: how awesome was the soundtrack to\u00a0Tony Hawk\u2019s Underground 2? This is exactly the type of music percolating from your PlayStation 2 while you throw tomatos at a half-naked Phil Margera in Barcelona. Nature\/Nurture&nbsp;is the fourth album from Clowns, a punk band from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17635,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17593\/revisions\/17635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}