{"id":426,"date":"2010-08-01T13:43:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T13:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/?p=426"},"modified":"2010-08-01T13:44:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T13:44:34","slug":"ready-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/ready-to-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready To Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Arcade-Fire-The-Suburbs-300x297.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-427\" title=\"Arcade-Fire-The-Suburbs-300x297\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Arcade-Fire-The-Suburbs-300x297.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Arcade-Fire-The-Suburbs-300x297.png 300w, https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Arcade-Fire-The-Suburbs-300x297-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My copy of the new Arcade Fire album, &#8216;The Suburbs&#8217;, arrived yesterday. It&#8217;s officially released tomorrow. I&#8217;ve been playing an MP3 version since last weekend, but it&#8217;s only when I hear a lossless version, up loud, on my hi-fi, that I find out how good an album is. And this is <em>good<\/em>, full of strong melodies with lyrics that resemble their debut <em>Funeral<\/em> more that the bombastic follow-up <em>Neon Bible<\/em>. It could be an album of the year contender.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already previewed the opening, title track here (<em>grab your mother&#8217;s keys, we&#8217;re leaving<\/em>). Here&#8217;s the second track, which is just as exciting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/02-Ready-To-Start.mp3\">The Arcade Fire &#8211; Ready To Start<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My copy of the new Arcade Fire album, &#8216;The Suburbs&#8217;, arrived yesterday. It&#8217;s officially released tomorrow. I&#8217;ve been playing an MP3 version since last weekend, but it&#8217;s only when I hear a lossless version, up loud, on my hi-fi, that I find out how good an album is. And this is good, full of strong melodies with lyrics that resemble their debut Funeral more that the bombastic follow-up Neon Bible. It could be an album of the year contender. I&#8217;ve already previewed the opening, title track here (grab your mother&#8217;s keys, we&#8217;re leaving). Here&#8217;s the second track, which is just as exciting. The Arcade Fire &#8211; Ready To Start<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}