{"id":384,"date":"2016-02-01T04:53:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T04:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/?p=384"},"modified":"2019-09-24T01:43:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T01:43:14","slug":"mudhoney-since-weve-become-translucent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"Mudhoney: Since We&#8217;ve Become Translucent"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h1><span style=\"line-height: 1.71429; font-size: 1rem;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/muds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-442\" src=\"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/muds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/muds.jpg 250w, https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/muds-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Originally published in\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"line-height: 1.71429; font-size: 1rem;\">Alternative Press<\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.71429; font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0magazine<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<p>Mudhoney\u2019s return to Sub Pop after a 10-year hiatus couldn\u2019t be more unlike their start on the famed indie label. Contrast the band\u2019s first 1988 single\u2014the 2:30 blast of nihilism called \u201cTouch Me I\u2019m Sick\u201d\u2014with the first song here, a sprawling, drug-damaged dirge clocking at 8:26 called \u201cBaby, Can You Dig the Light.\u201d That the album closes with an 8-minute Stooges jam called \u201cSonic Infusion\u201d is telling, too: While they\u2019ve lost much of their leanness and are less direct, they\u00a0<i>are\u00a0<\/i>still Mudhoney, and Mudhoney still digs the Stooges.<\/p>\n<p>The change at drummer to former Lubricated Goat bassist Guy Maddison has brought with it the addition of twisted brass\u2014which taints tunes like \u201cTake It Like a Man\u201d and \u201cWhere the Flavor Is\u201d in ways that recall infamous trash-rockers Bloodloss. (This may or may not be a good thing.) Meanwhile, \u201cThe Straight Life\u201d and \u201cInside Job\u201d are some of the catchiest tunes the band has put out in years.<\/p>\n<p>And that also might not be a good thing. While\u00a0<i>Translucent\u00a0<\/i>offers Mudhoney fans the easiest listen of the band\u2019s career, only one or two tracks (notably, \u201cIn the Winner\u2019s Circle\u201d) capture that combination of venom, wit, and old-time Northwest angst that made Mudhoney one of the grunge movement\u2019s standouts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in\u00a0Alternative Press\u00a0magazine Mudhoney\u2019s return to Sub Pop after a 10-year hiatus couldn\u2019t be more unlike their start on the famed indie label. Contrast the band\u2019s first 1988 single\u2014the 2:30 blast of nihilism called \u201cTouch Me I\u2019m Sick\u201d\u2014with the first song here, a sprawling, drug-damaged dirge clocking at 8:26 called \u201cBaby, Can You Dig [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}