{"id":733,"date":"2009-12-07T21:35:22","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T02:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=733"},"modified":"2009-12-08T21:26:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T02:26:46","slug":"into-a-parallel-world-somewhere-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/07\/into-a-parallel-world-somewhere-2\/","title":{"rendered":"into a parallel world somewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been absolutely unable to stop listening to the last <a href=\"http:\/\/www.traceythorn.com\/\">Tracey Thorn<\/a> record (<em>Out of the Woods<\/em>) recently. I bought it for Jonathan for his birthday a couple of years ago, right after it came out. But while I liked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vlJbTxelw6k\">the single<\/a> then, I just couldn&#8217;t get into the rest of the album. It&#8217;s a mix of quiet pianoey songs and faster electronic stuff, and for some reason back then I kind of resented the incursion of the softer stuff into the happy techno goodness. I guess I&#8217;ve been missing later-stage EBTG.<\/p>\n<p>But that was stupid, because it turns out that the slower stuff is fabulous (duh for me). It&#8217;s always been those songs that really foreground her incredible voice. When I was looking for the YouTube link above to &#8220;It&#8217;s All True&#8221; I stumbled across this video for the version of The Style Council&#8217;s &#8220;The Paris Match&#8221; with Tracey singing. It&#8217;s still amazing all these many years later, and so much more convenient than having to go into the living room to fire up the turntable:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uAdal53PKmk&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uAdal53PKmk&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Her new record is coming out on Ben Watt&#8217;s Buzzin&#8217; Fly label in Spring 2010, yippee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been absolutely unable to stop listening to the last Tracey Thorn record (Out of the Woods) recently. I bought it for Jonathan for his birthday a couple of years ago, right after it came out. But while I liked the single then, I just couldn&#8217;t get into the rest of the album. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}