{"id":802,"date":"2011-02-14T14:37:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T20:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/?p=802"},"modified":"2011-02-14T14:37:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T20:37:37","slug":"happy-living-by-mumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/happy-living-by-mumble\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Living by Mumble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll be honest when reviewing this and tell you that I had to listen a couple of times before I got into this release. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-804\" title=\"Mumble - HappyLiving\" src=\"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2011\/02\/Mumble-HappyLiving1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2011\/02\/Mumble-HappyLiving1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2011\/02\/Mumble-HappyLiving1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Maybe it\u2019s because the music is way more complex than I originally thought. These five guys hail from Michigan and put out a powerhouse of what I can only describe as indie pop. Produced by Jeff Elbel of Ping and Farewell To Juliet, this disc is actually quite fun. Upon first listen I thought it sounded somewhere along the lines of Brian May playing guitar for The Beatles. It has a grown up indie drive with a pop sensibility and thrill. The lyrics are really good and tell unique snapshots with a storyteller\u2019s rhyme. The music and arrangements are really unique and out of the norm. Definite feel good, roll down the window on a sunny day music. Check them out and give it a go!<\/p>\n[2010 Marathon Records | Purchase: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netads.com\/music\/marathon\/mumble\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.netads.com\/music\/marathon\/mumble\/<\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll be honest when reviewing this and tell you that I had to listen a couple of times before I got into this release. Maybe it\u2019s because the music is way more complex than I originally thought. These five guys &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/happy-living-by-mumble\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[93,24],"tags":[136,135],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-january-2011","category-music-review","tag-marathon-records","tag-mumble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}