{"id":32275,"date":"2016-03-17T11:03:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T17:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=32275"},"modified":"2016-03-17T11:16:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T17:16:13","slug":"water-spaniel-release-sky-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/water-spaniel-release-sky-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Spaniel Release Sky Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It\u2019s not <strong>Water Spaniel<\/strong>\u2019s first proper release, but it certainly feels like their most realized. The Cleveland-based heavy psych band recorded <strong><em>Sky Funeral<\/em><\/strong> from summer of 2015 until the beginning of this year at bassist <strong>Jesse Manfield<\/strong>\u2019s basement studio in <strong>Memphis<\/strong>. Water Spaniel promised \u201cmore ambience, more terror, more serenity, [and] more uneasiness\u201d on this record. These traits are evident immediately in the 12-minute opener \u201cBlack Planet\/Mega Blocks,\u201d which pushes their sprawling, alluring music into some experimental sonic territory. You can stream or purchase <em>Sky Funeral <\/em>online at <a href=\"http:\/\/waterspaniel.bandcamp.com\">waterspaniel.bandcamp.com<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14544\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not Water Spaniel\u2019s first proper release, but it certainly feels like their most realized. The Cleveland-based heavy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":32276,"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":""},"categories":[5373],"tags":[57,8077,468,642,8078,3,753,6982],"class_list":["post-32275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-music-notes","tag-cleveland","tag-jesse-manfield","tag-memphis","tag-ms","tag-sky-funeral","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv","tag-water-spaniel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-03-16-LMNWaterSpaniel.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}