{"id":18895,"date":"2020-01-22T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=18895"},"modified":"2020-01-20T11:24:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T19:24:16","slug":"new-music-revue-of-montreal-delivers-powerful-pop-with-tons-of-textures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2020\/01\/22\/new-music-revue-of-montreal-delivers-powerful-pop-with-tons-of-textures\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Revue<\/em>: of Montreal delivers powerful pop with tons of textures"},"content":{"rendered":"

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of Montreal
\nUR FUN
\n<\/i>(Polyvinyl)
\n4.5\/5\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

UR FUN<\/i> is the 16th studio album from Athens, Georgia\u2019s of Montreal, the indie\/pop band led by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Kevin Barnes. The album makes me want to laze in bed with a modern lover and sit in a discotheque in slow motion.<\/p>\n

First, Barnes pokes holes in your average Joe\u2019s off-the-rack tweed suit before beckoning you on an ethereal cathedral synth parade. From there, the album drives with a kick that punches the listener in the face and then applies the concealer so they can keep listening.<\/p>\n

Just when I\u2019m tired of hearing another synth, Barnes throws in a fuzzed-out guitar riff that lets my feet touch the ground in an otherwise atmospheric album.<\/p>\n

When not entranced by his lyrics, the bass and percussive intricacies\u2014which have more layers than an English trifle\u2014thrust the listener back into the heart of this album, a pop record with all the textures of Bowie\u2019s wardrobe. It slaps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

of Montreal UR FUN (Polyvinyl) 4.5\/5\u00a0 UR FUN is the 16th studio album from Athens, Georgia\u2019s of Montreal, the indie\/pop band led by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Kevin Barnes. The album makes me want to laze in bed with a modern lover and sit in a discotheque in slow motion. First, Barnes pokes holes in your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18896,"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":[4,246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-january-22-2020"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18895","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=18895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18897,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18895\/revisions\/18897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}