{"id":1188,"date":"2014-11-27T12:49:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T12:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2014-11-27T12:49:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T12:49:52","slug":"superstition-by-the-birthday-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/?p=1188","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Superstition&#8221; by The Birthday Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Birthday Massacre<br \/>\n\u201cSuperstition\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Superstition.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Superstition.png\" alt=\"Superstition\" width=\"425\" height=\"425\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1189\" srcset=\"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Superstition.png 425w, http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Superstition-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Superstition-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMetropolis Records<\/p>\n<p>By Doktor John<\/p>\n<p>This ten-track release by Canadian Goth-rock sextet The Birthday Massacre represents their sixth studio album.  It lives up to the hopes of those who have come to expect gorgeous, dark-themed female vocals by lead singer Chibi, delicious minor-key melodies and symphonic elements realized through heavy, down-tuned bass and guitar as well as synthetic accompaniment.<\/p>\n<p>            From the opening track &#8212;\u201cDivide\u201d with Chibi\u2019s ultra-sweet vocals and menacing, drone-like bass background &#8212; to the all-instrumental concluding track, \u201cTrinity,\u201d the theme is dreamy, hallucinatory and ethereal. Occasional hissing, menacing male spoken word interjections are set against her luscious singing. The flow is generally upbeat, with a few ventures into more complex, syncopated rhythms., The title track \u201cSuperstition\u201d slows the tempo down to a pace that is just shy of depressing, giving the entire ensemble a chance to be heard and for soloists to sound off alongside a blend of synthetic effects.<\/p>\n<p>              Fans and newcomers to The Birthday Massacre will enjoy poetic narratives, the seductive if somewhat vampiric propositions, the allegorical portrayals of such phenomena as the ocean, rain, the so-called coming of age and the mysterious \u201cother side.\u201d Above all, they will find themselves drawn into succulent melodies and mesmerizing rhythms that have been the signature sound of this band from their earliest appearance on the dark-music scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Birthday Massacre \u201cSuperstition\u201d Metropolis Records By Doktor John This ten-track release by Canadian Goth-rock sextet The Birthday Massacre represents their sixth studio album. It lives up to the hopes of those who have come to expect gorgeous, dark-themed female vocals by lead singer Chibi, delicious minor-key melodies and symphonic elements realized through heavy, down-tuned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}