{"id":5725,"date":"2017-06-07T09:26:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T13:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=5725"},"modified":"2017-06-07T09:33:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T13:33:50","slug":"music-update-may-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/07\/music-update-may-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Music update, May 2017."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My ranking of the <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/2rLg5wQ\" target=\"_blank\">top 100 prospects<\/a> for Monday&#8217;s MLB Rule 4 draft is now up for Insiders.<\/p>\n<p>If I don&#8217;t hurry up and post this, it&#8217;ll be a two-month update that has about 50 songs on it, so rather than wait for the time I&#8217;d need to do a full writeup, here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/keithlaw1\/playlist\/4hIadY1Zh3jYv6sD47sabK\" target=\"_blank\">my latest playlist<\/a> of new music.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/user\/keithlaw1\/playlist\/4hIadY1Zh3jYv6sD47sabK\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tracks:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>alt-J \u2013 Adeline.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Arcade Fire \u2013 Everything Now.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Afghan Whigs \u2013 Toy Automatic.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Royal Blood \u2013 Hook, Line &#038; Sinker.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Portugal. The Man \u2013 So Young.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Wavves \u2013 No Shade.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The New Pornographers \u2013 Darling Shade.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Japanese Breakfast \u2013 Machinist.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>machineheart \u2013 Shelter.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Hoops \u2013 On Letting Go.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sl\u00f8tface \u2013 Magazine.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sheer Mag \u2013 Just Can&#8217;t Get Enough.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fictionist \u2013 Lazarus.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>MisterWives \u2013 Coloring Outside The Lines.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Are We Static \u2013 Heartbreaker.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Chain Gang Of 1974 \u2013 Looking For Love.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>WATERS \u2013 Something More.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cloves \u2013 California Numb.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Courtney Barnett \u2013 How to Boil an Egg.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sundara Karma \u2013 Explore.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Swet Shop Boys \u2013 Zombie.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Danger Mouse, Run The Jewels, Big Boi \u2013 Chase Me.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Some quick thoughts: I didn&#8217;t love alt-J&#8217;s new album, <em>Relaxer<\/em>, as they&#8217;ve continued to move away from the minimalist approach of their debut album, but thought the new WAVVES record was strong, and liked the new records from Afghan Whigs (more than their comeback LP) and WATERS. I&#8217;ve listed to the New Pornographers&#8217; <em>Whiteout Conditions<\/em>, released in April a few times; I think it&#8217;s solid but not as good throughout as <em>Brill Bruisers<\/em>. I&#8217;m looking forward to the upcoming releases from Royal Blood, Arcade Fire, and Cloves. The Courtney Barnett song is a one-off single, a song she said she wrote when she was much younger but had never recorded. I&#8217;ve ended with two hip-hop songs &#8211; the Swet Shop Boys (Riz Ahmed &#038; Heems) returned with a six-track EP, while the last song is from the 30-song soundtrack to the upcoming film <em>Baby Driver<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My ranking of the top 100 prospects for Monday&#8217;s MLB Rule 4 draft is now up for Insiders. If I don&#8217;t hurry up and post this, it&#8217;ll be a two-month update that has about 50 songs on it, so rather than wait for the time I&#8217;d need to do a full writeup, here&#8217;s my latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[913,359,609,852],"class_list":["post-5725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2017-in-music","tag-alternative","tag-hip-hop","tag-music","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5725"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5728,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725\/revisions\/5728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}