{"id":1247,"date":"2014-04-17T08:33:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T12:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2014-04-24T10:14:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T14:14:22","slug":"thievery-corporation-saudade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/thievery-corporation-saudade\/","title":{"rendered":"Thievery Corporation <br>Saudade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/thievery_corporation-saudade.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1248\" alt=\"Thievery Corporation, Saudade\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/thievery_corporation-saudade.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/thievery_corporation-saudade.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/thievery_corporation-saudade-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s been 17 years since Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, the duo better known as Thievery Corporation, released their debut album, <i>Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi<\/i>. A mix of dub, jazz, bossa nova, and broadly speaking, trip-hop, it set the blueprint for nearly every release by the pair to follow. Though there have been new elements constantly being added, overall, if you were to pick up a Thievery Corporation record, you knew what you were getting. It isn\u2019t that Thievery Corporation have been making the same record, but they certainly know how to stay in their wheelhouse. But for their eighth album, <i>Saudade <\/i>(ESL Music), Garza and Hilton have decided to tweak the script a bit by releasing a purely bossa nova record.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">For a group that has built their career on slicing, stitching, and blending genres together, taking a conservative approach and focusing on only one seems radical. It\u2019s not necessarily unexpected as bossa nova has been part of the Thievery Corp sound from the beginning, but what is surprising is how straight they play it with <i>Saudade<\/i>. The songs aren\u2019t post-anything or bossa nova with a twist. With the exception of minor production touches, it\u2019s a faithful and respectful excursion. Traditionalists may want to argue over instrumentation or the purity of the stylistic variations, but that seems like a different conversation. If nothing else, Thievery Corporation should be applauded for delving deeper and not trying to fall back into their comfort zone.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><i>Saudade<\/i> is a Portuguese word that means \u201ca longing for something or someone that is lost, a contented melancholy, or, simply, the presence of absence.\u201d That feeling is conjured in sonic overtones, but with only three songs in English, it\u2019s up to more international ears to verify whether it\u2019s expressed verbally. It\u2019s to the credit of the cast of vocalists\u2014longtime Thievery cohort LouLou Ghelichkhani, Elin Melgarejo, Nouvelle Vague singer Karina Zeviani, Natalia Clavier, and former Bitter:Sweet singer and songwriter Shana Halligan\u2014that the songs still have that kind of punch even without the translation. For the songs that are in English, they scratch the \u201churts so good\u201d itch. <i>Saudade<\/i> shows that whether globe-hopping or extended vacation, Thievery Corporation are tour guides worth following.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been 17 years since Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, the duo better known as Thievery Corporation, released their debut album, <i>Sounds from the Thievery<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,523,522],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-review","tag-esl-music","tag-thievery-corporation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Thievery Corporation Saudade - The Agit Reader<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/thievery-corporation-saudade\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thievery Corporation Saudade - The Agit Reader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It\u2019s been 17 years since Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, the duo better known as Thievery Corporation, released their debut album, Sounds from the Thievery\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/thievery-corporation-saudade\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Agit Reader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheAgitReader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-04-17T12:33:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-04-24T14:14:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/thievery_corporation-saudade.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dorian S. 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