{"id":64588,"date":"2012-12-27T20:44:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T18:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?p=64588"},"modified":"2012-12-27T20:58:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T18:58:46","slug":"merchandise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?p=64588","title":{"rendered":"Merchandise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?attachment_id=64589\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-64589\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64589\" alt=\"merchandise\" src=\"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/merchandise.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/merchandise.jpg 480w, https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/merchandise-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Efter att helt ha missat Tampa-trion Merchandises andra album <em>Children of Desire<\/em> som gavs ut i somras har jag \u00e4gnat de senaste dagarna \u00e5t att supa in och f\u00f6r\u00e4lska mig i deras musik &#8211; och jag \u00e4r inte ensam &#8211; s\u00e5 h\u00e4r skrev till exempel NME om bandets spelning p\u00e5 CMJ i oktober:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Frontman Carson Cox bleeds coolness &#8211; an enigmatic, heroic singer who you can&#8217;t help but feel is destined for great things in the coming months. Much like his band, in fact.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sprungna ur den lokala DIY-scenen har Merchandise hittills gett ut de tv\u00e5 albumen <em>(Strange Songs) in the Dark<\/em>\u00a0och <em>Children of Desire<\/em> via Brooklyn-baserade labeln Katorga Works.\u00a0B\u00e5da albumen g\u00e5r att ladda ner fr\u00e5n bandets <a href=\"http:\/\/merchandisetheband.wordpress.com\/audio\/\">hemsida<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Totalt utg\u00f6rs <em>Children of Desire<\/em>\u00a0av enbart sex sp\u00e5r, \u00e4nd\u00e5 k\u00e4nns det som ett v\u00e4ldigt ambiti\u00f6st verk &#8211; albumet kommer bland annat med en bok d\u00e4r bandets texter v\u00e4vs in i en historia.\u00a0S\u00e5 h\u00e4r s\u00e4ger bandets gitarrist Dave Vassalotti i en intervju med <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/features\/rising\/8887-merchandise\/\">Pitchfork<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>You can find all the lyrics in there. I feel like it&#8217;s just part of the record now. Anybody who is just getting the mp3s is only getting half the story.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Musikaliskt befinner de sig i 80-talets m\u00f6rkaste h\u00f6rn. J\u00e4mf\u00f6relser med s\u00e5v\u00e4l noise pop och postpunk \u00e4r oundvikliga \u00e4ven om bandet sj\u00e4lv n\u00e4mner Miles Davis och Nina Simone som influenser.\u00a0<em>Time<\/em> \u00e4r en romantisk popl\u00e5t med en melodi som tagen ur The Cures m\u00e4sterverk <em>Disintegration<\/em> medan\u00a0<em>Become What You Are<\/em> \u00e4r en tio minuter l\u00e5ng uppg\u00f6relse\u00a0med svirlande gitarrer som hade kunnat passa p\u00e5 TOYs sj\u00e4lvbetitlade debutalbum. Dessutom\u00a0b\u00e4rs l\u00e5tarna fram av Cox karakt\u00e4ristiska r\u00f6st som befinner sig n\u00e5gonstans mellan Morrissey och Ian Curtis. Lyssna sj\u00e4lv:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A-tFixmh-wo\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FdIlsTpf5wM\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Efter att helt ha missat Tampa-trion Merchandises andra album Children of Desire som gavs ut i somras har jag \u00e4gnat de senaste dagarna \u00e5t att supa in och f\u00f6r\u00e4lska mig i deras musik &#8211; och jag \u00e4r inte ensam &#8211; s\u00e5 h\u00e4r skrev till exempel NME om bandets spelning p\u00e5 CMJ i oktober: Frontman Carson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9207,9204,9205,9203,9206],"class_list":{"0":"post-64588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-musik","7":"tag-become-what-you-are","8":"tag-children-of-desire","9":"tag-katorga-works","10":"tag-merchandise","11":"tag-time","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64588"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64592,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64588\/revisions\/64592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}