{"id":1982,"date":"2015-09-14T00:56:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T05:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2019-11-12T01:08:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T06:08:56","slug":"the-chewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=1982","title":{"rendered":"The Chewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1985\" style=\"margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/TheChewers-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"TheChewers\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/TheChewers-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/TheChewers-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/TheChewers.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Dead Dads<\/em> CD<br \/>\nSelf Released, 2015<\/p>\n<p>Right as the July heat\u00a0began to simmer the sickly humid\u00a0air and warp the atmosphere into a sweaty stew, the latest collection of madness released from this Nashville duo became\u00a0an unexpected soundtrack to summer, permeating the\u00a0psyche with tales of madness and absurdity told through the most weirdly seductive freak\u00a0bungle. Plodding, lopsided, and spacious, The Chewers have honed their oddly odd sonic stew on <em>Dead Dads<\/em>, their third album, with disciplined songwriting that\u00a0forces every pit and peak\u00a0of their idiosyncratic music\u00a0and madcap storytelling to shimmer in the haze.\u00a0While they&#8217;re completely in a league of their own, those who are\u00a0susceptible to the spaces between\u00a0<strong>Tom Waits<\/strong> and <strong>King Missile<\/strong>, or in league with indie oddities like <strong>The Guinea Worms<\/strong> or <strong>The Country Teasers<\/strong>, may also be attracted to this lumbering\u00a0freak feast.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 472px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3138912663\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=333333\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"http:\/\/thechewers.bandcamp.com\/album\/dead-dads\">Dead Dads by The Chewers<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>LINKS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thechewers.bandcamp.com\/\">The Chewers on Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/The-Chewers-158829480802530\/timeline\/\">The Chewers on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/the-chewers\">The Chewers on Soundcloud<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thechewers.com\/\">The Chewers website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dead Dads CD Self Released, 2015 Right as the July heat\u00a0began to simmer the sickly humid\u00a0air and warp the atmosphere into a sweaty stew, the latest collection of madness released from this Nashville duo became\u00a0an unexpected soundtrack to summer, permeating the\u00a0psyche with tales of madness and absurdity told through the most weirdly seductive freak\u00a0bungle. Plodding, [&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":[223,222,220,34,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982"}],"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=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2467,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions\/2467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}