{"id":22175,"date":"2011-11-04T17:19:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T17:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=22175"},"modified":"2015-04-09T20:44:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T19:44:31","slug":"sugar-rush-mxdwm-com-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/sugar-rush-mxdwm-com-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugar Rush: &#8216;mxdwm.com&#8217; Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehumansofficial.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.thehumansofficial.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/humsug11a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"6\" \/><\/a>More human than Human<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Comprised of singer Toyah Willcox and bass players Bill Rieflin and Chris Wong, The Humans are a surprising group who combine waves of acid jazz, Massive Attack-like grooves and the occasional burst of \u201980s pop and early \u201990s industrial. It adds up to a mixed bag of tricks on their second album Sugar Rush, but still one worth a listen.<\/p>\n<p>The album opens with \u201cTitanium Girl\u201d via a disjointed vocal \u201cwah wah\u201d effect before the ethereal voice of Willcox dances above it. Then it is slammed with a driving bassline and deep, guttural guitar pulses. After that, \u201cLove in a Different Way\u201d is a quiet, strummed track with a slightly \u201980s feel thanks to the breathy vocals and synth. The same retro feeling is found in \u201cSmall Town Psychopath,\u201d which mixes pure jazz club with a overdrawn beginning, as well as in \u201cSweet Agitation.\u201d It seems with The Humans, the more subdued the song, the more it sounds like it would have been played in a late \u201980s film.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Read the full review at &#8216;mxdwm.com&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mxdwn.com\/2011\/11\/02\/reviews\/the-humans-sugar-rush\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More human than Human Comprised of singer Toyah Willcox and bass players Bill Rieflin and Chris Wong, The Humans are a surprising group who combine waves of acid jazz, Massive Attack-like grooves and the occasional burst of \u201980s pop and early \u201990s industrial. It adds up to a mixed bag of tricks on their second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[110,44],"tags":[1277,1276,337],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22175"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22213,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22175\/revisions\/22213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}