{"id":818,"date":"2004-10-07T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-07T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=818"},"modified":"2024-04-03T16:24:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T16:24:25","slug":"the-delgados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=818","title":{"rendered":"The Delgados"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Universal Audio<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsreview.com\/media\/images\/articles\/featured\/2020\/07\/31713-01.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some bands are born to linger in the underground, drawing sizeable crowds only in major cities. Such is the case of Scotland\u2019s highly revered Delgados. Although they\u2019ve logged countless kudos from previous releases, it\u2019d be fair to say the Delgados have always hidden themselves in the background. However, they finally have hit their stride on their latest and fifth release.\u00a0<em>Universal Audio<\/em>\u00a0is their first real \u201cpop\u201d album, and it should appeal to fans of early Kinks and modern groups like Elastica, Bis, Belly and Spoon. Emma Pollock\u2019s vocal schemes on \u201cI Fought the Angels,\u201d the opening track, and \u201cEverybody Come Down\u201d are as witty as any written by Tanya Donnelly or even Karen Carpenter, yet Pollock\u2019s name will never be whispered in the same breath. Too bad. Log another triumph for the Scottish.<br>(SN&amp;R)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal Audio Some bands are born to linger in the underground, drawing sizeable crowds only in major cities. Such is the case of Scotland\u2019s highly revered Delgados. Although they\u2019ve logged countless kudos from previous releases, it\u2019d be fair to say the Delgados have always hidden themselves in the background. However, they finally have hit their [&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-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","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=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}