{"id":24537,"date":"2023-11-01T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=24537"},"modified":"2023-10-27T14:25:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T21:25:31","slug":"new-music-revue-lightheaded-pretty-good-on-good-good-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2023\/11\/01\/new-music-revue-lightheaded-pretty-good-on-good-good-great\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: Lightheaded pretty good on <em>Good Good Great!<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/wish37_3000-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-24538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/wish37_3000-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/wish37_3000-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/wish37_3000-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/wish37_3000-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/wish37_3000-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/wish37_3000-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/wish37_3000-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lightheaded<br \/>\n<i>Good Good Great!<br \/>\n<\/i>(Slumberland)<br \/>\n3.5\/5<\/p>\n<p><i>Good Good Great!<\/i>, the debut album from New Jersey indie rockers Lightheaded, is a unique blending of mostly \u201880s- and \u201890s-era indie-pop sounds, with some Phil Spector and Curt Boettcher production influences sprinkled in for good measure, in a similar schtick to other retro-inspired indie groups like Paramount or Bleachers.<\/p>\n<p>Lightheaded\u2019s own unique, ethereal, and slightly subdued style works wonderfully on tracks like \u201cMercury Girl\u201d and \u201cLove Is Overrated.\u201d Both are heartbreaking.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this same style makes lyrics like \u201cgirl, whoa, whoa, whoa, I\u2019m thinking of you now\u201d in \u201cPatti Girl\u201d sound a little silly. Still, occasionally trying too hard is better than not trying at all.<\/p>\n<p>The album is well worth a listen, especially if you\u2019ve recently been dumped and are looking for something to ruminate over your ex to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightheaded Good Good Great! (Slumberland) 3.5\/5 Good Good Great!, the debut album from New Jersey indie rockers Lightheaded, is a unique blending of mostly \u201880s- and \u201890s-era indie-pop sounds, with some Phil Spector and Curt Boettcher production influences sprinkled in for good measure, in a similar schtick to other retro-inspired indie groups like Paramount or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24538,"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":[4,298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-november-1-2023"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24537","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=24537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24539,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24537\/revisions\/24539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}