{"id":1902,"date":"2014-07-20T17:41:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T23:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2014-07-20T17:41:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T23:41:12","slug":"swimsuit-grandma-barely-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/swimsuit-grandma-barely-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimsuit Grandma – Barely There"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"swimsuitgrandma\"Mike Indest returns with one of his strongest offerings to date. Mike may speak of dry spells and all that, but these songs really don\u2019t sound like a songwriter coming off a period of writer\u2019s block. Barely There<\/i> has a flow to it that sounds like it just came together easily and naturally. Or to borrow some terms from Sean Severson of And How \u2013 airy and cohesive. The rest of the band (Eddie Parrino, Monty LeBlanc, and Glen Sigur) add a bit of rock and swagger to the mix. I\u2019m also diggin\u2019 the reggae touches to some of the songs. Despite the band name, the subject matter is lament, and therefore you get a bit more of a somber tone than past offerings. Or more accurately, each song is based on a chapter from the book of Lamentations. As with past offerings, this ep is free to download from BandCamp \u2013 s what do you have to lose?<\/p>\n[2014 Independent | Download: mikeindest.bandcamp.com<\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike Indest returns with one of his strongest offerings to date. Mike may speak of dry spells and all that, but these songs really don\u2019t sound like a songwriter coming off a period of writer\u2019s block. Barely There has a … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[380,24],"tags":[98,360,395],"class_list":["post-1902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-february-2015","category-music-review","tag-independent","tag-mike-indest","tag-swimsuit-grandma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1904,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions\/1904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}