{"id":22116,"date":"2022-02-11T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T17:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=22116"},"modified":"2022-02-04T12:14:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T20:14:55","slug":"new-music-revue-new-zealand-indie-popsters-mild-orange-deliver-uplifting-third-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2022\/02\/11\/new-music-revue-new-zealand-indie-popsters-mild-orange-deliver-uplifting-third-album\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: New Zealand indie-popsters Mild Orange deliver uplifting third album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/LOOKING_FOR_SPACE_ART_THE_ACTUAL_FILE_art_by_josh_mehrtens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22117\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/LOOKING_FOR_SPACE_ART_THE_ACTUAL_FILE_art_by_josh_mehrtens-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/LOOKING_FOR_SPACE_ART_THE_ACTUAL_FILE_art_by_josh_mehrtens-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/LOOKING_FOR_SPACE_ART_THE_ACTUAL_FILE_art_by_josh_mehrtens.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/LOOKING_FOR_SPACE_ART_THE_ACTUAL_FILE_art_by_josh_mehrtens-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mild Orange<br \/>\n<i>Looking for Space<br \/>\n<\/i>(AWAL)<br \/>\n3.5\/5<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand indie-pop band Mild Orange recently released their third album, <i>Looking for Space<\/i>. The album carries an uplifting message and tone throughout almost the entirety of its runtime, with a few more sombre songs spliced in. Relaxing vocals and instruments back up this message with a chill tone.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the album, there\u2019s a theme of not giving up, that things will get better. The band successfully conveys the feeling that no matter what, things will work themselves out\u2014you can relax right now. Listening to <i>Looking for Space<\/i> also brings up imagery of cities at night, road trips with friends, and time spent reflecting alone.<\/p>\n<p><i>Looking for Space<\/i>\u2019s only shortcoming is that some of the songs feel a bit too tonally generic, bordering on mediocrity due to being so similar to other songs in the genre. It, thankfully, makes up for this with standout cuts such as \u201cThe Time Of Our Lives,\u201d \u201cHollywood Dreams,\u201d and \u201cThis Kinda Day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mild Orange Looking for Space (AWAL) 3.5\/5\u00a0 New Zealand indie-pop band Mild Orange recently released their third album, Looking for Space. The album carries an uplifting message and tone throughout almost the entirety of its runtime, with a few more sombre songs spliced in. Relaxing vocals and instruments back up this message with a chill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22117,"comment_status":"closed","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":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22116","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=22116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22118,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22116\/revisions\/22118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}