{"id":368,"date":"2018-05-19T05:14:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T05:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/?p=368"},"modified":"2018-05-19T05:14:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T05:14:38","slug":"new-music-speedy-ortiz-drop-twerp-verse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"New Music &#8211; Speedy Ortiz drop Twerp Verse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f76rghmg1jI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I just watched the videos from Speedy Ortiz\u2019s new album <em>Twerp Verse<\/em> which was released on April 27. I\u2019m going to go out on a limb and say this may be their best album to date. It\u2019s smart, complex, heartfelt, and the band is playing and singing better than ever. Reading the comments on YouTube (almost always a mistake) I was struck how so many dudes, mostly, seem to think that Speedy Ortiz has been going downhill since <em>Major Arcana<\/em>. I mean, I like <em>Major Arcana<\/em>, too, but <em>Foil Deer<\/em> also excellent, and don\u2019t forget to mention the great EP\u2019s <em>Sports<\/em> and <em>Real Hair<\/em>, and so on. I can\u2019t help but make a connection between Sadie\u2019s increasingly articulate voice for feminism, consent, gender equality and against racism, fat-shaming, slut-shaming, rape culture, ableism and so on, and the number of dudes complaining that Speedy Ortiz should go back to their grungy \u201croots\u201d of <em>Major Arcana<\/em>. Perhaps I am reading too much into it, but I think not.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you\u2019re okay with Speedy <em>not<\/em> re-making <em>Major Arcana<\/em> over and over again, give <em>Twerp Verse<\/em> a listen &#8211; you may just like it! I for one think the world is a much better place for having Sadie Dupuis and her rocking band mates in it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just watched the videos from Speedy Ortiz\u2019s new album Twerp Verse which was released on April 27. I\u2019m going to go out on a limb and say this may be their best album to date. It\u2019s smart, complex, heartfelt, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/?p=368\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}