{"id":5161,"date":"2023-02-05T07:10:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T07:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=5161"},"modified":"2023-02-05T07:10:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T07:10:18","slug":"single-review-a-day-out-with-memorial-device-skinnyboy-tunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2023\/02\/05\/single-review-a-day-out-with-memorial-device-skinnyboy-tunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: &#8220;A Day Out With Memorial Device&#8221; SkinnyBoy Tunes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/track=3993536520\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"https:\/\/skinnyboytunes.bandcamp.com\/track\/a-day-out-with-memorial-device\">A Day Out with Memorial Device by SkinnyBoy Tunes<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1021\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_662B10473080-1-1024x1021.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_662B10473080-1-1024x1021.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_662B10473080-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_662B10473080-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_662B10473080-1-768x766.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_662B10473080-1-435x435.jpeg 435w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_662B10473080-1-60x60.jpeg 60w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_662B10473080-1.jpeg 1179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>I like it when songs reference other acts in their titles or lyrics. <strong>SkinnyBoy Tunes<\/strong> becomes a foley artist with this one, using the sounds of a train station and even recruits a Scot Rail announcer to speak over the top of some lovely chords and a drum beat that grooves nicely. I love the electric piano solo on this as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This track is gorgeous, very put together! This was written in gratitude to the band Memorial Device (\u201cThe best band you\u2019ve never heard of\u201d) as a thank you for making SkinnyBoy Tunes a \u201cMemorial Device Alternative National Treasure\u201d).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The track is free to download but Piers does request you make a donation to your local food bank.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Piers is part of a community on Twitter that supports new music, especially via Neil March\u2019s Trust The Doc show on a Saturday night 5-7pm, and Ming and Jon\u2019s Monday Night Ride Out 9-11pm, which is how I came to know him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He describes himself as a genre-hopping music producer from Norwich, who occasionally bothers BBC Introducing and 6 Music.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Day Out with Memorial Device by SkinnyBoy Tunes I like it when songs reference other acts in their titles or lyrics. SkinnyBoy Tunes becomes a foley artist with this one, using the sounds of a train station and even recruits a Scot Rail announcer to speak over the top of some lovely chords and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[191,118,129,174,139,31,30,140,162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative","category-bass","category-drums","category-electronica","category-jazz","category-keyboards","category-music","category-review","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5163,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161\/revisions\/5163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}