{"id":20172,"date":"2014-01-23T10:20:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T18:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=20172"},"modified":"2014-01-23T13:54:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T21:54:27","slug":"listen-to-new-hold-steady-song-i-hope-this-whole-thing-didnt-frighten-you-from-impending-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-01\/listen-to-new-hold-steady-song-i-hope-this-whole-thing-didnt-frighten-you-from-impending-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to New Hold Steady Song &#8220;I Hope This Whole Thing Didn&#8217;t Frighten You&#8221; From Impending New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-hold-steady-teeth-dreams-608x610.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-20186\" alt=\"the-hold-steady-teeth-dreams-608x610\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-hold-steady-teeth-dreams-608x610-598x600.jpg\" width=\"598\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-hold-steady-teeth-dreams-608x610-598x600.jpg 598w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-hold-steady-teeth-dreams-608x610-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-hold-steady-teeth-dreams-608x610-398x400.jpg 398w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-hold-steady-teeth-dreams-608x610.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were slow to hold on to<a href=\"http:\/\/theholdsteady.net\/\"> <strong>The Hold Steady<\/strong><\/a>, but when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2010-09\/we-havent-been-able-to-hold-steady-until-now\/\">we finally did with their 2010 album,<\/a> <em><strong>Heaven Is Whenever<\/strong><\/em>, we were completely sold.\u00a0 Leader <strong>Craig Finn&#8217;s<\/strong> well-crafted lyrics about commoners and regulars and their trials and tribulations, coupled with the band&#8217;s and <strong>Finn&#8217;s<\/strong> resolute and rocking delivery, won us over completely.\u00a0 It&#8217;s now been four years, and the band will finally release their sixth album, <em><strong>Teeth Dreams<\/strong><\/em>, on March 25th via <strong>Washington Square Records<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 To get a feel, the band today released (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/the-hold-steady-return-with-big-rock-aspirations-on-teeth-dreams-20140123\"><strong>Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/a>) a new song for listening entitled <em><strong>I Hope This Whole Thing Didn&#8217;t Frighten You<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 <strong>Finn<\/strong> told <strong>Rolling Stone<\/strong>:\u00a0 &#8220;We were looking to make a big rock record,&#8221; he admits. &#8220;Maybe it&#8217;s less wild but in some ways that makes it a bigger record.\u201d\u00a0 We&#8217;ll have to see about the new &#8220;big rock&#8221; sound and its effects on<strong> Finn&#8217;s<\/strong> compelling mien.\u00a0 Hmmm.\u00a0 Just when we got on board, they&#8217;re going to mix things up.\u00a0 On this first blush, the sound hews a little too close to the arena sounds of <strong>Foo Fighters<\/strong> and similars for our tastes, but we&#8217;re willing to hold steady for the remainder of the album before rushing to judgment.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/129716102%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-ngHsg&amp;color=a29062&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were slow to hold on to The Hold Steady, but when we finally did with their 2010 album, Heaven Is Whenever, we were completely sold.\u00a0 Leader Craig Finn&#8217;s well-crafted lyrics about commoners and regulars and their trials and tribulations, coupled with the band&#8217;s and Finn&#8217;s resolute and rocking delivery, won us over completely.\u00a0 It&#8217;s [&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-20172","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\/20172","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=20172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}