{"id":11229,"date":"2013-07-21T18:16:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T23:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=11229"},"modified":"2013-07-21T18:16:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T23:16:18","slug":"shoegaze-sunday-alcests-beings-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=11229","title":{"rendered":"Shoegaze Sunday: Alcest&#8217;s &#8220;Beings of Light&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t decide whether Alcest is Shoegaze, Depressive Metal, or some offshoot of the RenFaire school of ProgRock (more long-forgotten French prog band Manticore than Jethro Tull). Here&#8217;s &#8220;Beings of Light,&#8221; which features a female lead singer rather the usual metal &#8220;screaming with a mouthful of gravel&#8221; that seems to have become standard in the genre, which they do on some of their other songs.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WLKdnuTLTcQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Whatever it is, it&#8217;s interesting enough to be worth a listen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t decide whether Alcest is Shoegaze, Depressive Metal, or some offshoot of the RenFaire school of ProgRock (more long-forgotten French prog band Manticore than Jethro Tull). Here&#8217;s &#8220;Beings of Light,&#8221; which features a female lead singer rather the usual metal &#8220;screaming with a mouthful of gravel&#8221; that seems to have become standard in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[1597,1103,1208],"class_list":["post-11229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-alcest","tag-progressive-rock","tag-shoegazer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11229"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11241,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229\/revisions\/11241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}