{"id":9914,"date":"2014-02-27T06:12:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/uncategorized\/cdthe_dismemberment_plan_bu\/"},"modified":"2014-02-27T06:12:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:12:11","slug":"cdthe_dismemberment_plan_bu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/music\/cdthe_dismemberment_plan_bu\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Dismemberment Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/disme.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22424\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/disme.jpg\" alt=\"disme\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe Dismemberment Plan<br \/>\n&#8220;Change&#8221;<br \/>\n(DeSoto)<\/h4>\n<p>The Dismemberment Plan are like the jazz\/adult-oriented answer to the emo\/indie scene. \u00a0Meaning, once you wade through all the &#8220;music&#8221; out there, you start to get decidedly more demanding in what you spend your precious time listening to. \u00a0And if half-assed garage bands just don&#8217;t serve you up the angst you had in high school and metal is best served up at the kegger, you might be looking for intelligence within melody. \u00a0With &#8220;Change,&#8221; you can expect lyrical maturity that both challenges and welcomes with the interplay of abstract reasonings painted within familiar and relatable scenarios. \u00a0From the track, &#8220;Superpowers&#8221;: \u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;ve watched the rich risk it all for 15 minutes in a Heathrow bathroom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Musicianship abounds with all members striving to throw their individual colors onto each songs canvas. \u00a0More mellow and less schizophrenic than previous works, this seems to be a wistfully content Dismemberment Plan. \u00a0Still, the peppy &#8220;Pay For the Piano&#8221; jerks and pops along with classic Dismemberment fervor. \u00a0&#8220;Secret Curse&#8221; rattles off lyrics like someone has a gun to the singer&#8217;s head, against a sustained fed-back guitar chord. \u00a0A subtle jazz schooling (or at least good comprehension of it) shows through on occasional bridges\/breaks and most evidently on &#8220;The Other Side,&#8221; with its great spacey vibe and shuffling snare and cymbal playing tag with the bass. \u00a0Put this one on your next stoner lounge compilation. \u00a0&#8220;Automatic&#8221; sits down and pulls lyrics apart in a sullen tone: &#8220;So monstrous and final&#8221; is confessed while an acoustic guitar plucks an offstep rhythm. \u00a0Songs often play like stories (&#8220;Come Home&#8221;) with wandering passages that usually serve to support singer Travis Morrison&#8217;s little kid voice stories. \u00a0When the really high voice gets overused it loses its impact, but nothing can really detract from originality factor. \u00a0This is where this band has always obtained critical respect, as they are hard to compare, and any band that makes it hard to drop band comparisons is doing something right. \u00a0Trickling melodies and dreamy vibes; \u00a0inside jokes and catchy hooks lost in the shuffle; \u00a0isolation was never so hip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dismemberment Plan &#8220;Change&#8221; (DeSoto) The Dismemberment Plan are like the jazz\/adult-oriented answer to the emo\/indie scene. \u00a0Meaning, once you wade through all the &#8220;music&#8221; out there, you start to get decidedly more demanding in what you spend your precious time listening to. \u00a0And if half-assed garage bands just don&#8217;t serve you up the angst [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[2000,3596,7311],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914"}],"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=9914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}