{"id":49634,"date":"2012-08-16T07:38:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T07:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=49634"},"modified":"2012-08-16T08:54:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T08:54:37","slug":"stanley-animals-with-amazing-disguises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/stanley-animals-with-amazing-disguises\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanley &#8211; Animals with Amazing Disguises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"590\" height=\"332\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6VtnPb-Yiss?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/stanleytheband.com\/home.cfm\">Stanley&#8217;s<\/a> first album and obviously these guys have been listening heavily to Neil Hannon&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedivinecomedy.com\">The Divine Comedy<\/a>. As far as as overwhelming influences go, they could have chosen worse (disclosure: we&#8217;re big fans of Hannon). Inevitably one is tempted to compare them to the original, so to speak, and Stanley have nothing to blush about.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good record in the cheeky melodramatic orchestral pop vein (think <a href=\"http:\/\/decemberists.com\">the Decemberists<\/a> and&#8230; well The Divine Comedy). The Aberdeen band might have to differentiate themselves a bit more from Hannon (even the lead singer&#8217;s voice sounds, let&#8217;s say, like a pointed tribute) in the future, and &#8216;Moneys and Friends&#8217; on the album is a move in this direction, with more of electronic vibe than the rest, or even the more aggressive rock and roll of &#8216;Dance like your Daddy&#8217;. Regardless of the direction they take in the future, this particular stage is a success and we&#8217;ll be keeping an eye on them.<\/p>\n<p>More of Stanely, including live tracks, here: <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/stanley-aberdeen\">http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/stanley-aberdeen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/content.bandzoogle.com\/users\/stanleyaberdeen\/images\/source\/1257717.jpg?3\" alt=\"Stanley - Animals with Amazing Disguises\" width=\"380\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Stanley&#8217;s first album and obviously these guys have been listening heavily to Neil Hannon&#8217;s The Divine Comedy. As far as as overwhelming influences go, they could have chosen worse (disclosure: we&#8217;re big fans of Hannon). Inevitably one is tempted to compare them to the original, so to speak, and Stanley have nothing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buzzwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}