{"id":5830,"date":"2014-02-27T06:09:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/?p=5830"},"modified":"2014-02-27T06:09:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:09:10","slug":"cdtakingpictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/music\/cdtakingpictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Taking Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tp.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38891\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Taking Pictures<br>&#8220;Friends Are Ghosts&#8221;<br>(My Pal God Records)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Sleep all day, sleep all year, for all you care, I&#8217;m not here.&#8221; And with that lyric, they had me. &nbsp;This is some feel good dreamy indie rock. &nbsp;Caress the guitar strings, slap them around a little, then apologize. &nbsp;&#8220;Pleasant&#8221; is a word that came to mind often throughout listening to &#8220;Friends Are Ghosts&#8221;. &nbsp;And sometimes, they even get creative and bust out of the meandering guitar lines and droning melodies. &nbsp;Some inventive approaches on the production side gives dimension to the distortions. &nbsp;At their loudest, they have a Jawbox stomp of clean guitars pushed so loudly they distort upon themselves. &nbsp;Also worth mentioning is how this three piece truly stretches within their format of a band. &nbsp;All instruments forge their own paths and rarely if ever double behind each other. &nbsp;While Mat Daly&#8217;s smooth, yet slightly raspy croon is the primary voice, yet all three add their layers in to thicken the wall of sound they weave around you like a friendly sweater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking Pictures are not afraid to wander paths of repetition just to make sure you know how cool they find a certain guitar texture or riff. &nbsp;Works for me. &nbsp;If you are one of the 10 people who seem to know who the Owls are, picture that band trying to rock-out more than jazz-out. &nbsp;Taking Pictures would tour well with their label mates Ex-Models. &nbsp;The meandering structures are a bit distracting on the first listen, but become all the more commanding upon the repeated exposure. &nbsp;You will appreciate the band all the more for their diversions. &nbsp;Don&#8217;t let this one slip by unnoticed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking Pictures&#8220;Friends Are Ghosts&#8221;(My Pal God Records) &#8220;Sleep all day, sleep all year, for all you care, I&#8217;m not here.&#8221; And with that lyric, they had me. &nbsp;This is some feel good dreamy indie rock. &nbsp;Caress the guitar strings, slap them around a little, then apologize. &nbsp;&#8220;Pleasant&#8221; is a word that came to mind often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[3615,4975,7095],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830"}],"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=5830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}