{"id":3178,"date":"2016-10-13T11:57:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T17:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocc.org\/?p=3178"},"modified":"2016-10-13T11:57:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T17:57:35","slug":"song-of-the-day-the-avalanches-subways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/2016\/10\/13\/song-of-the-day-the-avalanches-subways\/","title":{"rendered":"SONG OF THE DAY: The Avalanches \u2013\u2013 Subways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One joyful week this summer, two albums that I have since grown to love, and which I consider creative summits for both artists, came out : \u201cFreetown Sound\u201d by Blood Orange and \u201cWildflower\u201d by The Avalanches. I\u2019ve seen Blood Orange pop up quite often this year on the SoCC blog, and (in my humble opinion) with good reason. Still, I didn\u2019t want the Avalanches\u2019 album to be overlooked. While its lyrics may not be as emotionally\/socially charged, the production value of the album is outstanding \u2013\u2013 for proof, just listen to how intricately tens of seconds of samples are woven through most of the songs. For the Song of the Day, I chose \u201cSubways\u201d, the fourth song off of \u201cWildflower&#8221;; listen below and find out why.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Subways\" 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\/1ZxakFiRaOFj6CDarCxozU?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One joyful week this summer, two albums that I have since grown to love, and which I consider creative summits for both artists, came out : \u201cFreetown Sound\u201d by Blood Orange and \u201cWildflower\u201d by The Avalanches. I\u2019ve seen Blood Orange pop up quite often this year on the SoCC blog, and (in my humble opinion) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1121,"featured_media":3179,"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":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-music-of-the"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa7fJU-Pg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}