{"id":40201,"date":"2007-03-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/city-beach\/"},"modified":"2007-03-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T00:00:00","slug":"city-beach","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/city-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"City Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Luscious <city><\/city><place><\/place>Jackson\u2019s blend of sweet and sinister hip-hop-infused beats resulted in back-to-back slow-burning masterpieces, <i>Natural Ingredients<\/i> and <i>Fever In Fever Out <\/i>on the Beastie Boys\u2019 now-defunct Grand Royal label. Favoring motherhood over cramped touring vans and diminishing album sales, <city><\/city><place><\/place>Jackson bowed out in 2000. <\/p>\n<p>Seven years later, Jill Cunniff has dropped a chill-out valentine to beach dwelling just as winter continues to hammer her city of <city><\/city><place><\/place>Brooklyn. <\/p>\n<p>Listening to Cunniff\u2019s first full-length solo album since her band disbanded is very much like listening to a Luscious Jackson album. You have Cunniff\u2019s frequent <city><\/city><place><\/place>New York City references. You also have Cunniff\u2019s distinct, airy vocals over a backdrop of smart, jazzy hip-hop loops. But on <i>City Beach<\/i>, Cunniff experiments with Brazilian beats and slows the tempo to create a warm, slightly unfocused soundscape.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>The moment Cunniff\u2019s voice surfaces on <i>City Beach<\/i>, you remember just how much her voice is missed in modern rock. Cunniff has the ability to exude mellowness without lulling a listener to sleep. Incorporating buzzing guitars, minimalist percussion and a smattering of electronica, songs like \u201cLove is a Luxury\u201d and \u201cEye Candy\u201d are saccharine-free examples of summer pop perfection. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, much of <i>City\u2019s <\/i>beats require far more listener mining. It also doesn\u2019t help that her weakest lyrics are on the weakest musical tracks. \u201cWhen you are feelin low \/ hear the music let it go,\u201d Cunniff sings over a beat that sounds like an outtake from a Thievery Corporation album. The disc ends abruptly with the flat \u201cDisconnection,\u201d which features a woefully underutilized Emmylou Harris. <\/p>\n<p><i>City<\/i><i> <\/i><placetype><\/placetype><i>Beach<\/i> does reward with patient listens. Cunniff\u2019s enthusiasm for her city and the healing power of recreation is infectious. While <i>City<\/i> may lack in immediacy, it makes up for in its quirky charm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":28709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7915],"rating":[5614],"class_list":["post-40201","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-jill-cunniff","rating-rating-c-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40201"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}