{"id":4876,"date":"2015-08-03T11:06:47","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T10:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/?p=4876"},"modified":"2013-08-14T15:13:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T14:13:03","slug":"eight-rounds-rapid-writeabout-steve-reviewed-by-scenester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/eight-rounds-rapid-writeabout-steve-reviewed-by-scenester\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Rounds Rapid \u2013 Writeabout \/ Steve \u2013 reviewed by Scenester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Eight Rounds Rapid <\/strong>&#8211;<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em>Writeabout \/ Steve<\/em> (Podrophenia Records)<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Writeabout\u2019 hits the ground running somewhere on the Thames Delta, with the driving guitars of The Stooges and a Mark Perry-like larynx spitting out a fast talkin\u2019 hot fizzin\u2019 ever givin\u2019 coruscating critique of the nation\u2019s low-end celebrity-obsessed culture. Not for years has complaint rock sounded this mean, this exciting, brimming over with anger, the guitars cutting like buzz-saws and the amps turned up to \u2018stun\u2019, its target squarely in the line of fire.<\/p>\n<p>This vinyl only release has two \u2018A\u2018 Sides, the second being \u2018Steve\u2019, an urgent yelp of desperation over forbidding descending chords, biting guitar and a neat turn around that will have you playing both sides until the grooves grow old.<br \/>\nAn absolutely perfect storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Writeabout\u2019 hits the ground running somewhere on the Thames Delta, with the driving guitars of The Stooges and a Mark Perry-like larynx spitting out a fast talkin\u2019 hot fizzin\u2019 ever givin\u2019 coruscating critique of the nation\u2019s low-end celebrity-obsessed culture. Not for years has complaint rock sounded this mean, this exciting, brimming over with anger, the guitars cutting like buzz-saws and the amps turned up to \u2018stun\u2019, its target squarely in the line of fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[306,6,128,71,92,74],"tags":[729,121],"series":[],"class_list":["post-4876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blues","category-features","category-hot-plugs","category-music","category-post-punk","category-reviews","tag-eight-rounds-rapid","tag-eyeplug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4876"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5044,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions\/5044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4876"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=4876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}