{"id":18233,"date":"2019-09-25T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=18233"},"modified":"2019-09-25T06:35:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T13:35:53","slug":"new-music-revue-denms-new-ep-half-lit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/09\/25\/new-music-revue-denms-new-ep-half-lit\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: DENM&#8217;s new EP half-lit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DENM-\u201cEndless-Summer\u201d-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18234\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DENM-\u201cEndless-Summer\u201d-cover-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DENM-\u201cEndless-Summer\u201d-cover-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DENM-\u201cEndless-Summer\u201d-cover.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DENM<br \/>\n<i>Endless Summer<br \/>\n<\/i>(Rock Mafia)<br \/>\n3.5\/5<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>DENM, an artist based out of Southern California best known for his 2016 hit \u201cLit,\u201d recently released his newest EP, <i>Endless Summer<\/i>. This is DENM\u2019s third EP, taking influence from rock and reggae while occasionally tossing in a hip-hop beat or EDM bass line.<\/p>\n<p>The EP is a relatively short but pleasant listen, with tracks like \u201cMy Wave,\u201d \u201cBadfish,\u201d and \u201cFind Your Own\u201d exhibiting DENM\u2019s skill at combining elements of reggae lyrics, rock instrumentation, hip-hop beats, and occasional EDM sounds while exploring themes of finding your way in the world and going with the flow.<\/p>\n<p>However, the tracks in the middle of the EP do get pretty weak. The third song, \u201cBlow It Up,\u201d uses a poorly executed hook, while the fourth track, \u201cNo Break,\u201d is excellent until its ending, which is tonally inconsistent with the rest of the track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DENM Endless Summer (Rock Mafia) 3.5\/5\u00a0 DENM, an artist based out of Southern California best known for his 2016 hit \u201cLit,\u201d recently released his newest EP, Endless Summer. This is DENM\u2019s third EP, taking influence from rock and reggae while occasionally tossing in a hip-hop beat or EDM bass line. The EP is a relatively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18234,"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":[4,240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-september-25-2019"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18233","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=18233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18235,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18233\/revisions\/18235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}