{"id":850,"date":"2005-04-14T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=850"},"modified":"2024-04-03T16:42:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T16:42:42","slug":"mando-diao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=850","title":{"rendered":"Mando Diao"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hurricane Bar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsreview.com\/media\/images\/articles\/featured\/2020\/07\/34913-01.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This band\u2019s two singers, Gustaf Nor\u00e9n and Bj\u00f6rn Dixgard, deliver more hooks in 30 seconds than the Thrills or the Vines have on all of their releases combined. On\u00a0<em>Hurricane Bar<\/em>, their sophomore release for Mute, one listen to \u201cCut The Rope\u201d or the harmony-laden \u201cGod Knows\u201d will bring back flashes of Eric Burdon\u2019s Animals and easily should convert followers of Jet or the Libertines. Unlike the countless, one-word named, pseudo-retro garbage acts that preceded the band\u2019s glorious first U.S. release,\u00a0<em>Bring \u2019Em In<\/em>, Mando Diao\u2019s songs are so infectious that a vaccine should be created. Songs like \u201cDown In The Past\u201d and \u201cAll My Senses\u201d should be the new standard for rock \u2019n\u2019 roll in the new millennium. Fans of the Strokes take note: There\u2019s a new kid on the block.<br>(SN&amp;R)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Bar This band\u2019s two singers, Gustaf Nor\u00e9n and Bj\u00f6rn Dixgard, deliver more hooks in 30 seconds than the Thrills or the Vines have on all of their releases combined. On\u00a0Hurricane Bar, their sophomore release for Mute, one listen to \u201cCut The Rope\u201d or the harmony-laden \u201cGod Knows\u201d will bring back flashes of Eric Burdon\u2019s [&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-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","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=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}