{"id":15688,"date":"2013-03-14T09:42:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T17:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=15688"},"modified":"2013-03-14T12:20:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T20:20:52","slug":"cyclists-and-music-lovers-watch-british-sea-powers-official-video-for-title-track-machineries-of-joy-from-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-03\/cyclists-and-music-lovers-watch-british-sea-powers-official-video-for-title-track-machineries-of-joy-from-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclists and Music Lovers: Watch British Sea Power&#8217;s Official Video For Title Track &#8220;Machineries of Joy&#8221; From New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bsp_machineries_of_joy-e13606149434021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15700\" alt=\"bsp_machineries_of_joy-e1360614943402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bsp_machineries_of_joy-e13606149434021.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bsp_machineries_of_joy-e13606149434021.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bsp_machineries_of_joy-e13606149434021-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bsp_machineries_of_joy-e13606149434021-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2010-05\/british-anthem-power\/\">One of our favorite UK bands<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishseapower.co.uk\/\"><strong> British Sea Power<\/strong><\/a> is back with a new album <strong>Machineries Of Joy<\/strong> to be released on April 1st on <strong>Rough Trade Records<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>British Sea Power<\/strong> are a six-piece band variously originating from Cumbria, Yorkshire, Ealing and Shropshire and are currently based in East Sussex and on the Isle Of Skye.<\/p>\n<p>The band&#8217;s singer\/guitarist <strong>Yan<\/strong> explains about the new album:\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019d like to think the album is warm and restorative. Various things are touched on in the words \u2013 Franciscan monks, ketamine, French female bodybuilders turned erotic movie stars. <strong>The world often seems a mad place at the moment. You can\u2019t really be oblivious to that, but we\u2019d like the record to be an antidote \u2013 a nice game of cards in pleasant company<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>British Sea Power<\/strong> has now released its cycling-centric official video for the fantastic, chugging title track from the new album.\u00a0 Check it out below.\u00a0 We love anything cycling, and the video captures well the spell of spinning through (and up) bucolic terrain and letting life flow past.\u00a0 We love the down-tube shifters and vintage look, and the bicycle sculptures along the way.\u00a0 Not sure about the angst instead of release\/joy in the closing moments.\u00a0 Still, a beauty in song and vision.\u00a0 And remember:\u00a0 help is [always] on the way.<\/p>\n<p>Bring on the new album!\u00a0 You can pre-order it<a href=\"http:\/\/shopusa.roughtraderecords.com\/rt-homepage-1\/machineries-of-joy\"><strong> HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DHUes0dGjUI\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our favorite UK bands, British Sea Power is back with a new album Machineries Of Joy to be released on April 1st on Rough Trade Records.\u00a0 British Sea Power are a six-piece band variously originating from Cumbria, Yorkshire, Ealing and Shropshire and are currently based in East Sussex and on the Isle Of [&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-15688","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\/15688","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=15688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}