{"id":1078,"date":"2016-11-02T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2016-11-08T22:38:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T03:38:06","slug":"eye-out-for-the-middle-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2016\/11\/02\/eye-out-for-the-middle-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Up: Middle Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney-based trio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/middlekidsmusic\/\" target=\"_blank\">Middle Kids<\/a> won&#8217;t release their debut six-song EP until early 2017, but they&#8217;ve given us a hint at what they&#8217;ll sound like with their first two singles. They released &#8220;Edge of Town&#8221; in May, and this official video for &#8220;Your Love&#8221; yesterday. It&#8217;s got a great, poppy bounce and an endearingly modest refrain, &#8220;Sometimes I want to give up on this love but then I hear you call.&#8221; This is the kind of song that makes you stop, take a deep breath, and tap your foot for a while.   <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3d5IIgGucaw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This band really has a knack for refrains. What I like best about the first single, &#8220;Edge of Town,&#8221; is how they turn the phrase around in the last minute as the tempo speeds up, from the easy offer of relief, &#8220;Hey, guy, have you got something on your mind?\/Tick, tock, could I take it for a while?&#8221; to the more urgent, &#8220;Hey, guys, I&#8217;ve got something on my mind\/Tick, tock, could you take it for a while?&#8221; There&#8217;s an emotional shift there, a breakdown from trying to help to losing yourself and trying to withdraw. With so much ugliness trying to seep into everyone&#8217;s souls, it seems you&#8217;re always the former or the latter, depending on the day.  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cFWqLLaMOFs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The band is slated to release their self-titled EP early in 2017, and have some US dates lined up around that time, with more dates to be added. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney-based trio Middle Kids won&#8217;t release their debut six-song EP until early 2017, but they&#8217;ve given us a hint at what they&#8217;ll sound&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1079,"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":true,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[769,768],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-uncategorized","tag-eye-out-for","tag-middle-kids"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/MiddleKids_DruMaasepp.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lGwW-ho","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}