{"id":1082,"date":"2007-12-21T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-12-21T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T13:53:00","slug":"hissing-fauna-shares-the-gift-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/hissing-fauna-shares-the-gift-of-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Hissing Fauna Shares the Gift of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/66R0uy7grY0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Recently joined <strong>Townsman Hissing Fauna<\/strong> has boldly jumped in with his gift of music! Following the gift, he explains what the song means to him. Check it out, and don&#8217;t forget to return the gift with your thoughtful comments!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/RTHGiftDay2.mp3\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/RTHGiftDay2.mp3\">Hissing Fauna&#8217;s Gift of Music<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I really like this song for a number of reasons.  It sounds like some modern wall-of-sound, without being annoyingly shoe gazey. The singer&#8217;s voice might be a little cloying but it has a really great melody. The lyrics are a highlight of the song for me. Unlike a lot of modern music, this song isn&#8217;t weighed down by <strong>depressing existentialist angst<\/strong> that can be heard in the <strong>Arcade Fire<\/strong> or <strong>Radiohead<\/strong> or whoever it is Pitchfork Media is hailing as the saviors of music. I think <strong>optimism<\/strong> in music is a great thing, because it can really be uplifting to the listener. That&#8217;s why I love songs like Neutral Milk Hotel&#8217;s &#8220;In the Aeroplane Over the Sea&#8221;, or &#8220;Wouldn&#8217;t it Be Nice&#8221;, or <em>Songs in the Key of Life<\/em>.  Lyrics like &#8220;and the question is, was I more alive\/then than I am now?\/I happily have to disagree;\/I laugh more often now, I cry more often now,\/I am more me&#8221; appeal to me a lot because as a teenager, I have to deal with the overwhelming pessimism all the people at my school seem obsessed with spreading.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently joined Townsman Hissing Fauna has boldly jumped in with his gift of music! Following the gift, he explains what the song means to him. Check it out, and don&#8217;t forget to return the gift with your thoughtful comments! Hissing Fauna&#8217;s Gift of Music I really like this song for a number of reasons. It <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/hissing-fauna-shares-the-gift-of-music\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}