{"id":43130,"date":"2013-05-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/mixtape-for-duckie\/"},"modified":"2013-05-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T00:00:00","slug":"mixtape-for-duckie","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/mixtape-for-duckie\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixtape For Duckie"},"content":{"rendered":"

For all those who are old enough to remember, the cassette tape was pretty worthless compared to modern mediums of music consumption. But one thing that it will forever be beloved and remembered for is the mixtape. (Those too young for this era might want to check out this Wikipedia<\/a> page for a fantastic readup on the fascinating art of mixtape creativity.)<\/p>\n

Echodrone has taken their love for this concept and created an album of covers, then smartly slapped on the \u201cmixtape\u201d title: Mixtape For Duckie<\/i>. And just like the technology of the cassette tape, the songs on this album (save for one) resemble a certain period in which music was primarily consumed via this humble medium.<\/p>\n

While the music covered on Mixtape For Duckie<\/i> revolves primarily around the \u201880s era, the songs contained here \u2013 even if there are only six \u2013 are diverse, to say the least. From singer-songwriter (\u201cSailing\u201d by Christopher Cross); prog-rock (\u201cTime\u201d by Alan Parsons Project); jazz (\u201cWe Have All The Time In The World\u201d by Louis Armstrong); New Wave (\u201cAre Friends Electric?\u201d by Gary Numan and \u201cCry Little Sister\u201d by Gerard McMahon); and pop (\u201cPraying For Time\u201d by George Michael), this album has got some pretty interesting mix of covers.<\/p>\n

Being the kind of band that they are, Echodrone has selected songs that are wistful and dreamy for this compilation, which fits perfectly with the band\u2019s ethereal music style. Echodrone\u2019s take on these songs does deviate from the originals, as the music in this case has been layered up and slathered in noises and quirky sounds. The band does a great job tinkering with the compositions and making these songs their own by not creating just another dull covers album. Their versions of \u201cTime\u201d and \u201cSailing\u201d are particularly beautiful. But it is their cover of \u201cWe Have All The Time In The World\u201d that wins the trophy with its psychedelic and dreamy adaptation that will totally win respect of fans of the original version.<\/p>\n

Mixtape For Duckie<\/i> \u2013 for good reasons \u2013 might do zilch to resurrect interest in cassette tape for its listeners, but it surely does make music of the cassette tape era sound cool and hip to its iPod-listening audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":31428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[9110],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-43130","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-echodrone","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43130","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=43130"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=43130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}