{"id":9219,"date":"2014-02-27T06:12:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/uncategorized\/makers\/"},"modified":"2014-02-27T06:12:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:12:51","slug":"makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/music\/makers\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Makers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/maker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21754\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/maker.jpg\" alt=\"maker\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe Makers<br \/>\n&#8220;\u0093Rock Star God\u0094&#8221;<br \/>\n(SubPop)<\/h4>\n<p>The Kinks trying to be the Rolling Stones and failing. \u00a0But dressing the part all the way. \u00a0\u0093Star Power\u0094 spices with straight pianos and girlie voices going \u0093oooh-oooh\u0094. \u00a0There\u0092s an underlying greasy glammy tint (which isn\u0092t worn with the hip sass that\u0092s intended). \u00a0This is the kind of rock that goes \u0093oh yeah\u0094 and \u0093Uh-huh, uh-huh\u0094 a lot. \u00a0\u0093A Better Way Down\u0094 is an exercise in un-imaginative and unoriginal rhymes, laid on top of even less notable bar chords (and an attempt at humor about not setting yourself on fire). \u00a0It raised the question if four songs of this was enough. \u00a0The Bowie tinged \u0093God\u0092s Playing Favorites\u0094 has some drama with the heavy addition of a string section and some Doors sounding classic keys. \u00a0But what\u0092s amazing is that lyrics like \u00a0\u0093Open you eyes, and take a good look at me, Open your eyes and don\u0092tcha like what you see\u0094 got signed to SubPop Records. \u00a0Most of the progressions and core song ideas are ripped Stones tunes and other 60\u0092s, 70\u0092s rock pop. \u00a0Although that old school rock ethic has been seeing a lot of resurgence, I doubt the Makers are going to ride their sound very far even if it is the sound de jour. \u00a0There\u0092s many smaller elements (strings, spoken samples, keyboard effects) that raise the value of this as a recording, but the core ideas and the lyrics find themselves stuck in the repetitive and used. \u00a0My neighbor happened to stop by when I was listening to this and I quote, &#8220;\u0093I wouldn\u0092t buy it&#8221;.\u0094<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Makers &#8220;\u0093Rock Star God\u0094&#8221; (SubPop) The Kinks trying to be the Rolling Stones and failing. \u00a0But dressing the part all the way. \u00a0\u0093Star Power\u0094 spices with straight pianos and girlie voices going \u0093oooh-oooh\u0094. \u00a0There\u0092s an underlying greasy glammy tint (which isn\u0092t worn with the hip sass that\u0092s intended). \u00a0This is the kind of rock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[3627,6951,7474],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219"}],"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=9219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}