{"id":8904,"date":"2014-04-01T08:50:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T15:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=8904"},"modified":"2014-04-02T09:21:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T16:21:59","slug":"new-music-revue-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2014\/04\/01\/new-music-revue-elephant\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: Elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n30g9tEXhN1rp21yfo1_500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8905\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n30g9tEXhN1rp21yfo1_500.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n30g9tEXhN1rp21yfo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n30g9tEXhN1rp21yfo1_500-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n30g9tEXhN1rp21yfo1_500-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n30g9tEXhN1rp21yfo1_500-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n30g9tEXhN1rp21yfo1_500-110x110.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n30g9tEXhN1rp21yfo1_500-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n30g9tEXhN1rp21yfo1_500-180x180.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elephant<br \/>\n<i>Sky Swimming<br \/>\n<\/i>(Memphis Industries)<br \/>\n4\/5<\/p>\n<p><i>Sky Swimming<\/i> is an excellent debut album from alternative band Elephant, featuring ex-couple Amelia Rivas and Christian Pinchbeck.<\/p>\n<p>The disc mimics the up-and-down nature of their relationship (which fell apart during the making of the album), from the upbeat opener \u201cAssembly\u201d<i> <\/i>to the mellowed-out but still fun \u201cAnts\u201d and the emotional and raw title track.<\/p>\n<p>Constant throughout are Rivas\u2019 smooth as silk vocals sitting over the background of hip-hop beats, electronic loops, and moving harmonies. The album is occasionally overproduced, however, which distracts from Rivas\u2019 naturally beautiful voice.<\/p>\n<p>Still, this is a great album worth listening to over and over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elephant Sky Swimming (Memphis Industries) 4\/5 Sky Swimming is an excellent debut album from alternative band Elephant, featuring ex-couple Amelia Rivas and Christian Pinchbeck. The disc mimics the up-and-down nature of their relationship (which fell apart during the making of the album), from the upbeat opener \u201cAssembly\u201d to the mellowed-out but still fun \u201cAnts\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8905,"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":[4,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-april-2-2014"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8904","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=8904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8908,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8904\/revisions\/8908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}