{"id":3591,"date":"2010-09-23T08:42:55","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T15:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=3591"},"modified":"2010-09-23T08:42:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T15:42:55","slug":"lcd-soundsystem-vs-pavement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/09\/23\/lcd-soundsystem-vs-pavement\/","title":{"rendered":"LCD Soundsystem vs Pavement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As they&#8217;re back in the news for a reunion, I have been listening to and thinking about Pavement recently. Their songs are still as fresh for me as they were 15 years ago when I last listened to them \u2013\u00a0at that time, obsessively, for months on end. But they are not as rewarding \u2013\u00a0not after listening to LCD Soundsystem. <\/p>\n<p>While playing in different genres and a product of different decades, both groups explore fundamentally similar angles. Both are droll and earnest, obscure and precise, layered and clear. Yet only one of these two epoch-defining projects transcends their own contradictions and thus their time and place. <\/p>\n<p>For me, it&#8217;s LCD Soundsystem for the win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As they&#8217;re back in the news for a reunion, I have been listening to and thinking about Pavement recently. Their songs are still as fresh for me as they were 15 years ago when I last listened to them \u2013\u00a0at that time, obsessively, for months on end. But they are not as rewarding \u2013\u00a0not after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}