{"id":8758,"date":"2025-05-27T08:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T12:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=8758"},"modified":"2025-08-01T08:19:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:19:24","slug":"artificial-go-musical-chairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/artificial-go-musical-chairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Go <br>Musical Chairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/musicalchairs1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8759\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/musicalchairs1.jpg\" alt=\"Artificial Go, Musical Chairs album cover\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/musicalchairs1.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/musicalchairs1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Hopscotch Fever<\/i>, Artificial Go\u2019s debut from last year, was a fetching mix of slippery guitar lines, snappy beats, and singer Angie Willcutt\u2019s clever wordplay delivered in a delightfully arched tone. Melding into a kind of off-kilter post-punk pop, the record recalled luminaries like the Au Pairs and Suburban Laws, while being nevertheless just as wonderfully unique as the ones those bands made. In short, it was one of the year\u2019s best discoveries.<\/p>\n<p>Less than a year later, the Cincinnati band has returned with another record, <i>Musical Chairs<\/i> (Feel It Records). Generally less sparse in sound than the debut, <i>Musical Chairs<\/i> is just as charmingly idiosyncratic. On lead single \u201cCircles,\u201d gently strummed guitar riffs are grafted to shuffling beats while Willcut veers between sweetly singing the song\u2019s verses and chortling the chorus about \u201cshaking in (her) boots like a chihuahua!\u201d The band takes a left turn with the subsequent cut \u201cYaya,\u201d a funky bass line juxtaposed with sharp guitar jabs, bleating synth blasts, and Willcut delivering lines like, \u201cNo television to tell me what is happening,\u201d in a purposefully monotonic voice before she squeals the song\u2019s title. Throughout the record, Wilcutt connects similarly amorphous turns of phrase like dots either phonetically or semiotically. As such, there\u2019s a certain playfulness running through the record, which combined with the artful musical execution, makes for one hell of an enjoyable listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>Hopscotch Fever<\/i>, Artificial Go\u2019s debut from last year, was a fetching mix of slippery guitar lines, snappy beats, and singer Angie Willcutt\u2019s clever wordplay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,2643],"class_list":["post-8758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-review","tag-artificial-go"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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