{"id":85405,"date":"2014-07-17T12:09:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T10:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?p=85405"},"modified":"2014-08-08T13:49:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T11:49:14","slug":"skivrecension-melted-toys-melted-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?p=85405","title":{"rendered":"Skivrecension: Melted Toys &#8211; Melted Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/melted-toys.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-85406\" src=\"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/melted-toys-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"ATOZ_12in_WIDESPINE\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/melted-toys-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/melted-toys-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/melted-toys.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist: Melted Toys<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Titel: Melted Toys<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Betyg: 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>F\u00f6rsta g\u00e5ngen jag h\u00f6rde talas om Melted Toys var n\u00e4r jag intervjuade Craft Spells och bad dem tipsa om andra band fr\u00e5n San Francisco. Det var 2011 och de hade enbart gett ut sjusp\u00e5rs-EP:n <em>Washed &amp; Dried<\/em>. Sedan dess har sl\u00e4ppen uteblivit, men nu \u00e4ntligen s\u00e5 \u00e4r deras\u00a0full\u00e4ngdsdebut h\u00e4r. Efter att l\u00e4nge ha turnerat med trummaskin har de \u00e4ven ut\u00f6kat till en kvartett med Ole Haarstad bakom trummorna.<\/p>\n<p><em>Intro<\/em> b\u00f6rjar tillbakalutat och melodiskt, med n\u00e5gon samplad dialog som s\u00e4ger &#8221;the first song goes something like this&#8221; innan det tv\u00e4rt mynnar ut i n\u00e4sta sp\u00e5r:\u00a0<em>Bummed Out. <\/em>Efterf\u00f6ljande <em>Horizons<\/em> b\u00f6rjar n\u00e5got mer attackerande, men faller snart tillbaka i ett lugn. S\u00e5 forts\u00e4tter det. Den gemensamma n\u00e4mnaren \u00e4r att Steven Harkins s\u00e5ng f\u00f6r det mesta ligger lite under\u00a0de andra instrumenten. Soundet \u00e4r psykedeliskt, n\u00e5got lo-fi och temperaturen lagom behaglig.<\/p>\n<p>Det \u00e4r de mer subtila detaljerna som g\u00f6r albumet s\u00e5 imponerande.\u00a0<em>Melted Toys<\/em> \u00e4r ett album som f\u00f6rs samman av sina dr\u00f6mska popmelodier, samtidigt som vare l\u00e5t har en egen karakt\u00e4r. Men framf\u00f6r allt \u00e4r det ett bevis p\u00e5 att bra popmusik inte beh\u00f6ver str\u00e4va efter att\u00a0\u00e5teruppfinna hjulet\u00a0s\u00e5 l\u00e4nge den \u00e4r tillr\u00e4ckligt v\u00e4lskriven.<\/p>\n<p>B\u00e4sta sp\u00e5r: Blush<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dPM94JKwQiU\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Melted Toys Titel: Melted Toys Betyg: 4 F\u00f6rsta g\u00e5ngen jag h\u00f6rde talas om Melted Toys var n\u00e4r jag intervjuade Craft Spells och bad dem tipsa om andra band fr\u00e5n San Francisco. Det var 2011 och de hade enbart gett ut sjusp\u00e5rs-EP:n Washed &amp; Dried. Sedan dess har sl\u00e4ppen uteblivit, men nu \u00e4ntligen s\u00e5 \u00e4r [&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":[7,22],"tags":[1072,9854,9270,9292],"class_list":{"0":"post-85405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-musik","7":"category-skivor","8":"tag-craft-spells","9":"tag-lo-fi","10":"tag-melted-toys","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85405","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=85405"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85453,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85405\/revisions\/85453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}