{"id":8939,"date":"2014-02-27T06:13:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/uncategorized\/limes\/"},"modified":"2014-02-27T06:13:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:13:08","slug":"limes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/music\/limes\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Limes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lime.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21508\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lime.jpg\" alt=\"lime\" width=\"300\" height=\"307\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe Limes<br \/>\n&#8220;\u0093Turn Your Lights Off\u0094&#8221;<br \/>\n(Deluxe Records)<\/h4>\n<p>Hip rock. \u00a0The kind that sports shades in a nightclub and always seems to have the chick on its arm. \u00a0The kind that knows the value of pumping guitars that hit the quick strum break with a legs apart rock stance. \u00a0Urge Overkill slaps the ideal of The Limes filtered through a penchant for the simple riff punch, but containing a much more glossy shine. \u00a0Radio hooks are thick (almost Everclear clever without the sap) and structures are shaped into the traditional FM pop jam. \u00a0Cheap Trick rockster vibe accompanied with some interesting choice of guitar effects add to what would be the range of The Limes. \u00a0The pop bounce that most of these songs adhere to becomes a repetitive formula, but the approach has a certain easy to swallow accessibility despite its occasional shallow\/used progression. \u00a0I knew they would have to offer the meaningful Matchbox 20 sticky radio song, and was answered with, \u0093If\u0094. \u00a0The problem is, from a radio executives view, this song would probably sell right up there with the Wallflowers. \u00a0If you find yourself embracing that stuff the contemporary radio tells you is \u0093rock\u0094 \u00a0(Gin Blossoms were never rock), The Limes offer a decent take on the mainstream radio rock nugget and succeed best when they walk outside the line of the worn idea. \u00a0Songs like, \u0093Friends\u0094 use such old guitar progressions, even the singers Replacements-like delivery doesn&#8217;\u0092t shine up the ancient reworked progression behind it. \u00a0About mid-way through this disk, the sap comes dripping through. \u00a0The Limes are so much better when they deal with some tempo and volume and experiment as the slow stuff lacks much to keep the attention. (Even if the singer can do really pretty high voice stuff). \u00a0 When they put the creative stitch in, songs like, &#8220;\u0093Smile\u0094&#8221; are born (love that early new-wave Clash feel to the guitar riff here). \u00a0Evens the vocals on this song take on a neurotic waiver and re-define this bands credibility. \u00a0Depending on which song you listen to, The Limes can appear pop genius original or why bother used. \u00a0Trim the tired and check out this excellent EP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Limes &#8220;\u0093Turn Your Lights Off\u0094&#8221; (Deluxe Records) Hip rock. \u00a0The kind that sports shades in a nightclub and always seems to have the chick on its arm. \u00a0The kind that knows the value of pumping guitars that hit the quick strum break with a legs apart rock stance. \u00a0Urge Overkill slaps the ideal of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[1973,3610,7457],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939"}],"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=8939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}