{"id":8606,"date":"2014-03-04T18:07:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T18:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=8606"},"modified":"2014-03-04T18:07:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T18:07:05","slug":"blood-orange-cupid-deluxe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2014\/03\/04\/blood-orange-cupid-deluxe\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Orange \u2013 Cupid Deluxe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blood-Orange-Cupid-Deluxe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8607\" alt=\"Blood-Orange-Cupid-Deluxe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blood-Orange-Cupid-Deluxe-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cupid Deluxe is Blood Orange\u2019s second album.<!--more--> It\u2019s a mix of new wave, jazz and pop with an umbrella of seductivity. It\u2019s like real slow mainstream music you\u2019d hear in a weird club where everyone\u2019s slow dancing and nobody is sure if they should really be there or not. Some of the tracks have that feel you get from listening to The XX but then it quickly switches over to jazz. This is demonstrated with \u201cUncle ACE.\u201d Although it starts out with a smooth jazz feel, we lose the vocals halfway through and some electronic sounds get added in. It\u2019s a nice song to write to. Everything was all fine and dandy with track two, \u201cYou\u2019re Not Good Enough,\u201d but I think somebody left the mic on during downtime. It sounds as though a room full of people are playing ping pong for the last minute of the song. <em>Cupid Deluxe<\/em> has a lot of spice with its several featured artists such as David Longstreth, Samantha Urbani, Clams Casino and plenty more. \u201cClipped On\u201d is one of few songs on the album with rap, because hey, why not? It\u2019s not too difficult to tell Blood Orange wrote this album with New York inspiration. The music will tell you that, but the sleevebook in the CD case full of pictures of New Yorkers, will probably be the biggest clue. I give this album a big A-OK, which is good because I\u2019ve been to New York and it is not my favorite place. (Domino Recording Co Ltd, <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodorangeforever.tumblr.com\">bloodorangeforever.tumblr.com<\/a>) <strong>Kaitlyn Emslie Farrell<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cupid Deluxe is Blood Orange\u2019s second album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1056],"class_list":["post-8606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-utn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}