{"id":1923,"date":"2019-12-01T19:51:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T00:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2019-12-01T19:53:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T00:53:41","slug":"stalins-of-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=1923","title":{"rendered":"Stalins of Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/media\/StalinsOfSound.jpg\" alt=\"Stalins of Sound\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>Tank Tracks<\/em> LP<br \/>\nSlovenly, 2014<\/p>\n<p>While their singles on Volar Records were fun electropunk that paid homage to <strong>M\u00e9tal Urbain<\/strong> and the charming dummy\u00a0punk\u00a0of <strong>The Spits<\/strong>, this debut from San Diego&#8217;s Stalins of Sound ups the\u00a0recording quality and songwriting to a level that rivals the work of any of their influences or contemporaries like <strong>The Lost Sounds<\/strong>. Like the crazed army\u00a0vet\u00a0who stole a tank and plowed through the streets of their hometown back in 1995 \u2014 the inspiration for the album art and title \u2014 the Stalins manage to steer their sound in directions that no one can see coming, pulling the best aspects of drum machine punk ala <strong>Big Black<\/strong>, the raw industrial burst of <strong>Babyland<\/strong>, and the coming-out-of-your-skin\u00a0fury of <strong>Black Bug<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 450px; height: 439px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1593775542\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=333333\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/slovenly.bandcamp.com\/album\/stalins-of-sound-tank-tracks-lp\">STALINS OF SOUND &quot;Tank Tracks&quot; LP by Stalins Of Sound<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>LINKS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slovenly.com\/store\/slovenly-releases\/vinyl\/stalins-of-sound-tank-tracks-lp.html\">Buy Tank Tracks at Slovenly Records<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stalinsofsound.bandcamp.com\/\">Stalins of Sound on Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tank Tracks LP Slovenly, 2014 While their singles on Volar Records were fun electropunk that paid homage to M\u00e9tal Urbain and the charming dummy\u00a0punk\u00a0of The Spits, this debut from San Diego&#8217;s Stalins of Sound ups the\u00a0recording quality and songwriting to a level that rivals the work of any of their influences or contemporaries like The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[122],"tags":[159,219,107,239],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2496,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions\/2496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}