{"id":4355,"date":"2018-05-20T20:35:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T18:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=4355"},"modified":"2018-05-20T20:36:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T18:36:58","slug":"honestly-this-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2018\/05\/20\/honestly-this-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Honestly, This World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the week since <a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2018\/05\/11\/farewell-scott-hutchison\/\">Scott Hutchison&#8217;s death<\/a> I&#8217;ve been listening to a lot of Frightened Rabbit, obviously. Less obviously, I&#8217;ve also gone back to the album <a href=\"http:\/\/drownedinsound.com\/releases\/16644\/reviews\/4144003\"><i>Honestly, This World<\/i><\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/themothandthemirror.bandcamp.com\">The Moth &#038; The Mirror<\/a>, a short-lived Scottish band that featured (amongst others) Stacey Sievwright and Gordon Skene (who was also playing with Frightened Rabbit at the time). I love this album, in particular the tracks &#8220;Germany&#8221; and &#8220;Fire&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1427437164\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=3932357320\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"http:\/\/themothandthemirror.bandcamp.com\/album\/honestly-this-world\">Honestly, This World by The Moth &amp; The Mirror<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What I hadn&#8217;t spotted until this week, probably because I&#8217;ve only ever seen it at tiny sizes, was the <em>airplane<\/em> on the album cover that all the birds are following. The phrase &#8220;Honestly, this world&#8230;&#8221; already yields a mental picture of someone shaking their damn head. Now I see it in the artwork as well, it&#8217;s a beautifully subtle verbal and visual facepalm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themothandthemirror.bandcamp.com\/album\/honestly-this-world\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2018\/honestly-this-world.jpg\" alt=\"Album cover for Honestly, This World by The Moth &amp; The Mirror\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is actually similar to a tattoo idea I had been toying with: a band of bird silhouettes around my arm, with somewhere amongst them a sly Airbus 320 \u2014 to represent the amount of flying I have done over the last five years. I might still revisit this! If I do, this album cover will give it the extra weight of a wonderfully obscure musical in-joke.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Moth &amp; The Mirror perform The Fire - Location Music TV\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GDqNHuBCZ5Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly, this world&#8230; <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2018\/honestly-this-world.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355","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=4355"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4361,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions\/4361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}