{"id":12917,"date":"2012-10-15T07:45:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T15:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=12917"},"modified":"2012-10-15T07:45:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T15:45:10","slug":"watch-alt-j-unplugged-in-paris-on-a-take-away-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-10\/watch-alt-j-unplugged-in-paris-on-a-take-away-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Alt-J Unplugged in Paris on a Take Away Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In stark contrast to the many and massive sounds contained on their captivating first album, <strong>An Awesome Wave<\/strong>, new Brit band <strong>Alt-J<\/strong> showed up on a bench up on <strong>Montmartre<\/strong> on a Take Away Show and played songs <em><strong>Matilda<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Dissolve Me<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 We love the winning, spare delivery featuring only a glockenspiel, two acoustic guitars and a malleted snare.\u00a0 The result is rightful focus on the lyrics and the group&#8217;s superb harmonies (on <em><strong>Dissolve Me<\/strong><\/em>, starting at 3:46 and especially at 5:40 and after&#8211;the song reminds of <strong>Noah and the Whale<\/strong>).\u00a0 They&#8217;re new on the scene, but already you can tell:\u00a0 this band is here to stay.\u00a0 <strong>Vive le Alt-J<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/51060854?title=1&amp;byline=1&amp;portrait=1\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In stark contrast to the many and massive sounds contained on their captivating first album, An Awesome Wave, new Brit band Alt-J showed up on a bench up on Montmartre on a Take Away Show and played songs Matilda and Dissolve Me.\u00a0 We love the winning, spare delivery featuring only a glockenspiel, two acoustic guitars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}