{"id":278,"date":"2010-03-08T15:08:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T20:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wdcvfm\/?p=278"},"modified":"2010-03-08T15:08:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T20:08:27","slug":"ted-leos-the-brutalist-bricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wdcvfm\/2010\/03\/ted-leos-the-brutalist-bricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Leo&#8217;s &#8220;The Brutalist Bricks&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 277px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Brutalist Bricks Cover\" src=\"http:\/\/28.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_kvyt6mLyTK1qzuzkwo1_500.jpg\" alt=\"Brutalist Bricks Cover\" width=\"267\" height=\"267\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ted Leo says, &quot;The cover might not make any sense at first, but if you stare at it long enough, you will go blind and then it won\u2019t matter.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ted Leo&#8217;s new album, &#8220;The Brutalist Bricks,&#8221; comes out tomorrow on Matador records. The album has been described by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slantmagazine.com\/music\/review\/ted-leo-and-the-pharmacists-the-brutalist-bricks\/2010\">some<\/a> as &#8220;peculiarly fresh,&#8221; and by me as &#8220;pretty much the greatest thing I have ever heard, ever.&#8221; Stylistically, the album follows 2007&#8217;s &#8220;Living with the Living,&#8221; but with a condensed, grittier sensibility and new energy. While the overall sound is delightfully consistent, there&#8217;s enough variety to keep things interesting, and Theodore&#8217;s songwriting really shines through. It&#8217;s a solid release that, if you are anything like me, you will play repeatedly for about a week straight.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no way I can do the album justice in a few words, but luckily the album is available for free streaming on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/tedleo\">Myspace<\/a>.  Get into it! We&#8217;ll also be adding it to our rotation at WDCV, so you&#8217;ll get to hear it when you tune in.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Leo is currently on tour supporting the album release, and will be coming to our area around early April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Music: Ted Leo&#8217;s new album &#8220;The Brutalist Bricks,&#8221; dropping March 9, is the best thing since Hearts of Oak. Possibly the best thing ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[53708],"tags":[2293,2048],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-representing-the-underrepresented","tag-new-music","tag-spring-10"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wdcvfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wdcvfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wdcvfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wdcvfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wdcvfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wdcvfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wdcvfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wdcvfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wdcvfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}