{"id":4082,"date":"2019-03-28T21:58:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T03:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/?p=4082"},"modified":"2019-03-28T22:01:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T04:01:16","slug":"song-of-the-week-jessica-pratt-moon-dude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/2019\/03\/28\/song-of-the-week-jessica-pratt-moon-dude\/","title":{"rendered":"SONG OF THE WEEK: Jessica Pratt\u2013 Moon Dude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">LA-based musician Jessica Pratt\u2019s music is often characterized as freak folk and beckons associations with folksy psychedelia of the 60s, namely The Byrd\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fifth Dimension<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and the work of Vashti Bunyan. It is miraculous to me that \u201cMoon Dude\u201d achieves such an expansive, out-of-this-world sound given Pratt limiting herself to mostly just acoustic guitar and vocals. Her alien-like, gorgeous voice, her psychedelic inflection, carries this song so far beyond the sounds someone expects from a singer-songwriter playing an acoustic guitar. Take a listen:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Moon Dude\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/0OmB7OmY3dYTcsDj2ygAF8?si=yB6Ku4dbTBatVjEiuESuoQ&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA-based musician Jessica Pratt\u2019s music is often characterized as freak folk and beckons associations with folksy psychedelia of the 60s, namely The Byrd\u2019s Fifth Dimension and the work of Vashti Bunyan. It is miraculous to me that \u201cMoon Dude\u201d achieves such an expansive, out-of-this-world sound given Pratt limiting herself to mostly just acoustic guitar and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1138,"featured_media":4083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/files\/2019\/03\/jessicapratt.jpg?fit=790%2C395","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa7fJU-13Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4085,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082\/revisions\/4085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}