{"id":4916,"date":"2014-02-27T06:08:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/?p=4916"},"modified":"2014-02-27T06:08:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:08:16","slug":"cdthephantomlimbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/music\/cdthephantomlimbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Phantom Limbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ph.jpg\" alt=\"ph\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe Phantom Limbs<br \/>\n&#8220;Displacement&#8221;<br \/>\n(Alternative Tentacles)<\/h4>\n<p>Listening to a Phantom Limbs album is like attending a heavy metal circus while peaking on acid-a wonderful experience, I guarantee you. \u00a0Their new album continues down the same path as their first, &#8220;Applied ignorance,&#8221; which is a good thing. \u00a0You can almost picture a psychotic, child-molesting clown creeping quietly behind you with an enormous machete and a wild-eyed ringmaster with a spiked whip and long moustache calling the shots while an army of shit-flinging monkeys with hatred in their eyes do their thing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all wrapped into this nifty package of chaotic bliss. \u00a0Some of the keyboard work reminds me a bit of Murder City Devils, but the songs are far more frantic and entrancing. \u00a0There&#8217;s a bit of early Alice Cooper, The Birthday Party and Bauhaus lurking in there somewhere too. \u00a0The only thing I can say about this album that isn&#8217;t glowing with admiration is that the songs tend to melt together without much diversion from the Phantom Limbs&#8217; distinct blueprint. \u00a0On the other hang, this is a strong point of the disc as well, as it pulls the whole thing together into a tight, cohesive nightmare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phantom Limbs &#8220;Displacement&#8221; (Alternative Tentacles) Listening to a Phantom Limbs album is like attending a heavy metal circus while peaking on acid-a wonderful experience, I guarantee you. \u00a0Their new album continues down the same path as their first, &#8220;Applied ignorance,&#8221; which is a good thing. \u00a0You can almost picture a psychotic, child-molesting clown creeping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[350,3618,7523],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}