{"id":579,"date":"2011-01-26T22:53:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T06:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=579"},"modified":"2011-01-26T22:53:45","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T06:53:45","slug":"i-could-not-make-up-a-review-this-good-o-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/26\/i-could-not-make-up-a-review-this-good-o-o\/","title":{"rendered":"I could not make up a review this good O.O"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paultristanfergus.com\/2011\/01\/26\/crime-and-the-forces-of-evil-dick-tracy-must-die\/\">The first review I&#8217;ve found of <i>Dick Tracy Must Die<\/i> appeared on the web today, over at <i>Diamond Island<\/i><\/a>. It&#8217;s based on <a href=\"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\">the downloadable album on Bandcamp<\/a>, the files that went off to the mastering engineer. And&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;my gods, it&#8217;s full of <em>raves<\/em>. I&#8217;m&#8230; boggling. No bullshit here, I am <em>stunned<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[<i>Dick Tracy Must Die<\/i> is] outstanding&#8230; these birds are grown up and fly on their own&#8230; different, interesting, and independent at its core&#8230;  biting insight and subtle wit&#8230; sincere and reasoned tenderness&#8230; Nothing\u2019s wasted here&#8230;. I can\u2019t find a single [song] I dislike. &#8230; The territory covered is impressive. I have yet to tire of it. The group characterizes itself as acoustic elf-metal. I would venture to say their sound is better described as acoustic elf-chrome\u2014lustrous, hard, and pure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>O.O<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;I&#8217;m not gonna lie. I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d <em>ever<\/em> get a review like this. From anybody. Ever. Particularly not from somebody who kinda hated <i>Sketchy Characters<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>People, f&#8217;srs, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/solarbird\/dick-tracy-must-duplicate-launch-our-cd\">I gotta get this duplicator. Clickie for the Kickstarter project page. Srsly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And here, have a player, they&#8217;ve made the whole-album player available. Yay!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><object data=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=70690785\/size=grande3\/bgcol=FFFFFF\/linkcol=09770D\/\/\" type=\"text\/html\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" width=\"300\" height=\"410\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=70690785\/size=grande3\/bgcol=FFFFFF\/linkcol=09770D\/\/\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"never\"><object data=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=70690785\/size=grande3\/bgcol=FFFFFF\/linkcol=09770D\/\/\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"300\" height=\"410\"><\/object><\/object><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m still boggling. OMG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first review I&#8217;ve found of Dick Tracy Must Die appeared on the web today, over at Diamond Island. It&#8217;s based on the downloadable album on Bandcamp, the files that went off to the mastering engineer. And&#8230; &#8230;my gods, it&#8217;s full of raves. I&#8217;m&#8230; boggling. No bullshit here, I am stunned: &#8220;[Dick Tracy Must Die [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}