{"id":26387,"date":"2016-08-24T14:20:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T22:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=26387"},"modified":"2016-08-25T14:52:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T22:52:10","slug":"watch-official-video-for-ian-sweets-gripping-song-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2016-08\/watch-official-video-for-ian-sweets-gripping-song-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Official Video for IAN SWEET&#8217;s Gripping Song &#8220;#23&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/download.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/download.jpg\" alt=\"download\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/download.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/download-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/download-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a whole lotta great music being spawned by alums of the <strong>Berklee College of Music<\/strong>\u00a0(great new-ish artists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-08\/watch-tei-shis-superb-new-video-for-see-me-filmed-in-bogota\/\"><strong>Tei Shi<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2016-05\/kick-off-your-weekend-with-laney-jones-and-the-spirits-exuberant-and-uber-catchy-song-allston-dance-around\/\"><strong>Laney Jones<\/strong><\/a> among them). \u00a0Add to that list the band<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iansweetmusic.com\/\">IAN SWEET<\/a><\/strong>, which\u00a0features Berklee-alum\u00a0<strong>Jillian Medford<\/strong>. \u00a0<strong>IAN SWEET<\/strong> is soon to release (on Sept. 9th) their debut album <em><strong>Shapeshifter<\/strong><\/em> on <strong>Sub Pop<\/strong>-affiliated label <strong>Hardly Art<\/strong>, and you can pre-order it <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardlyart.com\/releases\/ian_sweet\/shapeshifter\">HERE<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The new album sprang from a dark six-month period for <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Medford<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">, the lowlights of which were panic attacks and depression.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">To get a feel for the allure of the band, check out their song and video entitled<\/span><em style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><strong> #23<\/strong><\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"> below. The song references<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u00a0the comparative-comfort provided by everyday-TV (&#8220;Lately I&#8217;ve been feelin&#8217; kinda lonely\/Turn on that History Channel\/VHS about the mummies\/It keeps me company) and her social anxieties (\u201c\u2018I Believe I Can Fly\u2019\/ That was my song at karaoke last night\/ I feel like Jordan in my Jordans\/ Except I stand in place and ignore him\/ I\u2019ll stand right here for another year.'&#8221;). \u00a0We love <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Medford&#8217;s<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"> crackling vocals, the jangle-fuzz math guitar and varied tempos on<\/span><em style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><strong> #23<\/strong><\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">. <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Hole<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"> meets <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Pinback\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">with a twist?<\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Regardless, this is sweet new music, as is the album&#8217;s captivating Coney Island ride-choreography. \u00a0We can&#8217;t wait for the album!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/74l5zeEopD8\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a whole lotta great music being spawned by alums of the Berklee College of Music\u00a0(great new-ish artists Tei Shi and Laney Jones among them). \u00a0Add to that list the band IAN SWEET, which\u00a0features Berklee-alum\u00a0Jillian Medford. \u00a0IAN SWEET is soon to release (on Sept. 9th) their debut album Shapeshifter on Sub Pop-affiliated label Hardly Art, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26387","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\/26387","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=26387"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26401,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26387\/revisions\/26401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}