{"id":14843,"date":"2021-09-02T19:41:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T19:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/needletothegroove.net\/?p=14843"},"modified":"2021-09-02T19:57:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T19:57:10","slug":"casual-crypt-bedroom-recordings-on-slow-thrive-out-9-10-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/needletothegroove.net\/index.php\/2021\/09\/02\/casual-crypt-bedroom-recordings-on-slow-thrive-out-9-10-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Casual Crypt Bedroom Recordings On Slow Thrive Out 9\/10\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Casual Crypt Returns With &#8211;\u00a0<em>Monculture\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; a 10 Song Collection Of Bedroom Recordings Out 9\/10\/21<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/casualcrypt.bandcamp.com\/album\/monoculture\">PREVIEW &amp; PRE-ORDER HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following his self-titled debut, Casual Crypt returns with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monoculture, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a 10-track, genre-hopping effort played like a compilation of Vernon\u2019s influences, and his first attempt at releasing his recorded music completely solo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monoculture<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an intimate look into his creative process. Lo-fi defines the project with shades of new wave and indie-pop built on his easy-going drums and welcoming chord arrangements. Vernon&#8217;s vast influences and more expansive musical mindset are on full display with offerings of extended instrumental passages and significant stylistic shifts within the same track. He sings over acoustic and chorus-laden electric guitars, playing with the pitch knob on the tape machine to make the sunbaked cassette sound like the soundtrack to a hazy dream.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Describing <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monoculture <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as a \u201cleap-pad to get somewhere else musically,\u201d Vernon adds \u201cMy next project or album is probably going to be completely instrumental or close to it.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While largely aligned with the DIY indie mindset of groups like Guided By Voices, Domenique Dumont, and Cola Boy, some songs take his music in fascinating new directions. \u201cEsoteric\u201d carries a light bossa nova rhythmic sensibility. \u201cSea Lives\u201d sounds like Style Council after their first taste of Afrobeat. \u201cNewswave\u201d has deep electronic drums antagonized by new wave keys, providing a fascinating musical dialogue at times contested, and at times symbiotic. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casual Crypt Returns With &#8211;\u00a0Monculture\u00a0&#8211; a 10 Song Collection Of Bedroom Recordings Out 9\/10\/21 PREVIEW &amp; PRE-ORDER HERE Following his self-titled debut, Casual Crypt returns with Monoculture, a 10-track, genre-hopping effort played like a compilation of Vernon\u2019s influences, and his first attempt at releasing his recorded music completely solo.\u00a0 Monoculture is an intimate look into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/needletothegroove.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/needletothegroove.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/needletothegroove.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needletothegroove.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needletothegroove.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14843"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/needletothegroove.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14849,"href":"https:\/\/needletothegroove.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14843\/revisions\/14849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needletothegroove.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/needletothegroove.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needletothegroove.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needletothegroove.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}