{"id":14,"date":"2002-07-08T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-08T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T23:00:00","slug":"muscular-whimsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/muscular-whimsy\/","title":{"rendered":"Muscular whimsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt sends me a small review of the new &lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/www.fosca.com\/&quot;&gt;Fosca&lt;\/a&gt; single from &quot;Unpeeled&quot;, the unofficial paper-only fanzine for the John Peel show:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;FOSCA: Secret Crush On Third Trombone<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The &quot;A&quot; track is a bit of accomplished and muscular whimsy, if there is such a thing, pushed along by a seriously overweight bass.  An attractive noise, 80&apos;s bombast saved and beyond by sharp lyrics and impeccable timing.  Neat, but not a patch on&#8230; &quot;Diary of an Antibody&quot;, spoken diary entries, increasingly odd, funny and poignant &quot;of course I blow my own trumpet, anyone else&apos;s would be unhygienic&quot; and &quot;sex is the PE of adult life and I&apos;ve got a note from my mother&#8230;&quot;  I&apos;m afraid it&apos;s one of those &quot;must have&quot; records, please buy it, or at the very least get on to Uncle John, hassle him to play it and then tape it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by &quot;Zak Ordinance Jnr of the Fifth U.S. Tactical and Social Gathering Bombing Wing&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>I don&apos;t &lt;i&gt;think&lt;\/i&gt; that&apos;s anyone I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt sends me a small review of the new &lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/www.fosca.com\/&quot;&gt;Fosca&lt;\/a&gt; single from &quot;Unpeeled&quot;, the unofficial paper-only fanzine for the John Peel show: &quot;FOSCA: Secret Crush On Third Trombone &quot;The &quot;A&quot; track is a bit of accomplished and muscular whimsy, if there is such a thing, pushed along by a seriously overweight bass. An attractive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}