{"id":273,"date":"2012-02-05T23:46:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T06:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/?p=273"},"modified":"2012-02-05T23:46:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T06:46:56","slug":"chris-devotion-the-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/2012\/02\/05\/chris-devotion-the-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Devotion &amp; The Expectations &#8211; A Modest Refusal and Blister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nice and simple music video for a killer song. Check out this song. They hail from Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A MODEST REFUSAL - CHRIS DEVOTION AND THE EXPECTATIONS\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T33y-_XhK0Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And this one!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BLISTER - CHRIS DEVOTION AND THE EXPECTATIONS\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uR1EL5zZkaA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Off their album:<\/p>\n<p>Chris Devotion &amp; The Expectations \u2013 Amalgamation and Capital (2012)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/magiska.vlsweb.net.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/folder39-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"241\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Review:<\/p>\n<p>(From The Skinny)<\/p>\n<p>Encounter\u00a0<em>Amalgamation &amp; Capital<\/em>\u00a0anonymously and you might presume it a greatest hits rather than a debut, its no-nonsense new-wave suggesting a lost genre classic from a contemporary of Elvis Costello \u2013 a Jags, or an Any Trouble perhaps, with extra punk crunch in some of its more straight-up rock n roll numbers. It\u2019s packed to the gills with big hooks and boundless charm, Devotion\u2019s song-writing so expertly lean that the occasional non-starter is easily overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights include I Don\u2019t Need You Anymore, an old-fashioned pop hit in all but sales and timing; Blister\u2019s robust yet radio-friendly riffing; and closer Better than This, sounding positively epic after so much bubblegum. Needless to say, Devotion and his Expectations are not exactly reinventing the wheel, but nor are they attempting to; instead, they\u2019ve elected to rev it into a rubber-shredding spin, sparks flying from every boldly-struck power chord and cheeky lyrical bon mot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice and simple music video for a killer song. Check out this song. They hail from Glasgow. And this one! Off their album: Chris Devotion &amp; The Expectations \u2013 Amalgamation and Capital (2012) Review: (From The Skinny) Encounter\u00a0Amalgamation &amp; Capital\u00a0anonymously &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/2012\/02\/05\/chris-devotion-the-expectations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20,30,35,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-rock","category-favorites","category-indie-rock","category-music-videos","category-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}