{"id":1237,"date":"2009-06-23T22:58:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T02:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2018-08-08T23:41:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T03:41:36","slug":"melpo-menes-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"Melpo Mene\u2019s \u201cHoles\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This band (the name is a ref\u00ader\u00adence to Greek myth) is pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly Swedish singer\/songwriter\/lead gui\u00adtarist Erik Mat\u00adti\u00adas\u00adson.&nbsp;Mat\u00adti\u00adas\u00adson works out his own per\u00adson\u00adal ago\u00adnies.&nbsp;He had a rough child\u00adhood in Kiruna, a small city in Swe\u00adden\u2019s north\u00adern\u00admost boonies.&nbsp;He suf\u00adfers from schiz\u00ado\u00adphre\u00adnia.&nbsp;The title cut, with its eerie, whis\u00adpered lyrics about holes in his head, explores this mal\u00ada\u00addy from an insid\u00ader\u2019s view.&nbsp;The musi\u00adcian\u00adship is fine, my only qualm is that all the songs have the same tone, so per\u00adhaps they are more effec\u00adtive when heard one at a time.&nbsp;There\u2019s a new album out, Bring the Lions In, which I haven\u2019t been able to get a hold of.&nbsp;As with most Swedish rock, it\u2019s sung in Eng\u00adlish. Does\u00adn\u2019t any\u00adbody record songs in Swedish?&nbsp;It\u2019s nice to be acces\u00adsi\u00adble to the world mar\u00adket, but sure\u00adly there\u2019s some\u00adthing lost when an inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal lan\u00adguage so thor\u00adough\u00adly dom\u00adi\u00adnates a coun\u00adtry\u2019s music&nbsp;scene.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This band (the name is a ref\u00ader\u00adence to Greek myth) is pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly Swedish singer\/songwriter\/lead gui\u00adtarist Erik Mat\u00adti\u00adas\u00adson.&nbsp;Mat\u00adti\u00adas\u00adson works out his own per\u00adson\u00adal ago\u00adnies.&nbsp;He had a rough child\u00adhood in Kiruna, a small city in Swe\u00adden\u2019s north\u00adern\u00admost boonies.&nbsp;He suf\u00adfers from schiz\u00ado\u00adphre\u00adnia.&nbsp;The title&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1237\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-cr-listening-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8007,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/8007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}