{"id":1826,"date":"2006-01-17T23:35:40","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T23:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1826.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"must-have-new-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2006\/01\/17\/must-have-new-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Must&#8230;have&#8230;new&#8230;music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realized the other day that I hadn&#8217;t downloaded any new music since the beginning of <em>November<\/em>.  Yikes!  No wonder my days were feeling stale and uninspired.  So here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve grabbed as the first batch of new(ish) music for 2006:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arcade Fire &#8211; <i>Funeral<\/i>.  My cousin Cameron recommended these guys.  I&#8217;ve listened to the album once so far, and am not sure what to make of it.  It might grow.<\/li>\n<li>Fischerspooner &#8211; <i>Odyssey<\/i>.  I&#8217;d heard a couple of tracks from this last year.  Smart and funky electro.<\/li>\n<li>KT Tunstall &#8211; <i>Eye To The Telescope<\/i>.  The sheer weight of excellent songs from the album meant I had to get the whole thing.  Smooth and sweet wrapped around a nugget of rock.<\/li>\n<li>Mos Def &amp; Talib Kweli &#8211; <i>Black Star<\/i>.  Going back to 1998 for this one.  Talib Kweli showed up on a bunch of my favourite tunes from last year (collaborating with MF Doom and Kanye West), and according to my sources, <i>Black Star<\/i> was a good place to start getting some more of him.  It&#8217;s rich and sumptuous hip-hop&#8211;the good stuff.<\/li>\n<li>Stevie Wonder &#8211; <i>A Time To Love<\/i>.  I saw that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harbar.net\/\">Spence<\/a> has listed this as one of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harbar.net\/2005\/12\/five-records-of-year.asp\">records of 2005<\/a>.  I haven&#8217;t listened to much of Stevie Wonder&#8217;s recent material, but if this is anything to go by, I&#8217;m going to have to dive into that back catalogue.  It&#8217;s lush.<\/li>\n<li>System Of A Down &#8211; <i>Hypnotize<\/i>.  The second part of their 2005 diptych.  It hasn&#8217;t caught my ear as quickly as <i>Mezmerize<\/i> did, though.<\/li>\n<li>The White Stripes &#8211; <i>Get Behind Me Satan<\/i>.  It&#8217;s got a lighter touch than <i>Elephant<\/i>, but offers another excellent helping of stripped-down blues rock.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mmmm.  It&#8217;s a great start to the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realized the other day that I hadn&#8217;t downloaded any new music since the beginning of November. Yikes! No wonder my days were feeling stale and uninspired. So here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve grabbed as the first batch of new(ish) music for 2006: Arcade Fire &#8211; Funeral. My cousin Cameron recommended these guys. I&#8217;ve listened to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2006\/01\/17\/must-have-new-music\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Must&#8230;have&#8230;new&#8230;music&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}