{"id":9379,"date":"2014-02-27T06:12:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/uncategorized\/dexter-freebish\/"},"modified":"2014-02-27T06:12:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:12:42","slug":"dexter-freebish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/music\/dexter-freebish\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Dexter Freebish"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/dex.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21957\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/dex.jpg\" alt=\"dex\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nDexter Freebish<br \/>\n&#8220;\u0093A Life of Saturdays\u0094&#8221;<br \/>\n(Capitol Records)<\/h4>\n<p>I don\u0092t know how much clout winning \u0091Song of the Year\u0092 in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest has with you, but for me, its prestige is enough to force me open my ears to just about anything. \u00a0Dexter Freebish&#8217;\u0092s pop sensibilities are certainly in check with this cookie-cutter alternative rock bit. \u00a0It\u0092s radio-ready tracks like \u0093Leaving Town\u0094 of afore mentioned contest, are laced with cheery tempos, energetic bridges and traditional guitar rock and will likely prove dexterous on the pop charts. \u00a0Arranging their music along the lines of Del Amitri, Oasis and Third Eye Blind, these golden boys have crafted an album of sterling production. \u00a0A bit lyrically trite at times and victim to the token formulaic ballad, \u0093A Life of Saturdays\u0094 is note for note what should be expected from such obvious Top 40 aspirations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dexter Freebish &#8220;\u0093A Life of Saturdays\u0094&#8221; (Capitol Records) I don\u0092t know how much clout winning \u0091Song of the Year\u0092 in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest has with you, but for me, its prestige is enough to force me open my ears to just about anything. \u00a0Dexter Freebish&#8217;\u0092s pop sensibilities are certainly in check with this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[1289,2031,3629],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379"}],"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=9379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}