{"id":652,"date":"2002-03-14T01:53:00","date_gmt":"2002-03-14T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=652"},"modified":"2024-03-27T01:53:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T01:53:43","slug":"neil-halstead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"Neil Halstead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsreview.com\/media\/images\/articles\/featured\/2020\/07\/11312-01.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Neil Halstead, the former singer-songwriter-guitarist for Slowdive who still plays with Mojave 3, sounds at ease here. Halstead\u2019s latest album is his first attempt at a solo project. The nine-song album reportedly came about as the result of a failed personal relationship, which culminated in the usual outpouring of new material. While literally sleeping at the studio where Mojave 3 was recording its most recent album, Halstead was able to lay down some tracks that would eventually become\u00a0<em>Sleeping on Roads<\/em>. Such numbers as \u201cTwo Stones in My Pocket\u201d and \u201cDriving With Bert\u201d feature a beautiful recurring trumpet line, and are some of the best material that Halstead\u2019s written. Aided by Ian McCutcheon, Nick Holton and others, Halstead has succeeded in making a well-balanced, relaxed solo debut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(SN&amp;R)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Halstead, the former singer-songwriter-guitarist for Slowdive who still plays with Mojave 3, sounds at ease here. Halstead\u2019s latest album is his first attempt at a solo project. The nine-song album reportedly came about as the result of a failed personal relationship, which culminated in the usual outpouring of new material. While literally sleeping at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}