{"id":2487,"date":"2014-05-27T14:18:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T21:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dirtnaprecs.com\/website\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2014-09-21T09:22:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T16:22:09","slug":"the-estranged-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dirtnaprecs.com\/website\/the-estranged-st\/","title":{"rendered":"The Estranged &#8220;s\/t&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Estranged<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> return with their 3rd (4th, if you count the singles comp LP) album for Dirtnap.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Continuing in The Estranged\u2019s tradition of mutating and evolving with each subsequent release, the new album is an epic, sprawling masterpiece of tense, ominous angst-ridden postpunk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They\u2019ve heavily toned down both the Wipers influence of the 1st album and the blatant death-rock vibe of the 2nd. Instead,<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">this one finds the band establishing a streamlined, punchier sound that both rocks a little harder than the last album, while retaining some of the textured soundscape feel which fans of that record have come to expect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The influences on their newest album range from the Cure to Echo &amp; the Bunnymen to The Troggs to The Chameleons. Lyrically, they have more of an ambiguous angst ridden approach, musically showing the bands continued maturity in their song writing and recording process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The first pressing of 1000 LPs are packaged in ultra-heavy \u201ctip-on\u201d style jacket and inner sleeves. Subsequent pressings will come in regular jacket\/sleeves. All copies come with a coupon for a 320 kps Mp3 download.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Estranged return with their 3rd (4th, if you count the singles comp LP) album for Dirtnap. \u00a0Continuing in The Estranged\u2019s tradition of mutating and evolving with each subsequent release, the new album is an epic, sprawling masterpiece of tense, ominous angst-ridden postpunk. They\u2019ve heavily toned down both the Wipers influence of the 1st album [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-releases","category-releases"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dirtnaprecs.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dirtnaprecs.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dirtnaprecs.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dirtnaprecs.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dirtnaprecs.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dirtnaprecs.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488,"href":"https:\/\/www.dirtnaprecs.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions\/2488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dirtnaprecs.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dirtnaprecs.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dirtnaprecs.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}