{"id":343,"date":"2013-07-01T23:36:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T23:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/?page_id=343"},"modified":"2020-02-11T23:08:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T23:08:15","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/?page_id=343","title":{"rendered":"bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/?attachment_id=442\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-442\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-442\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/starfolks-049cropped1-1024x581.jpg\" alt=\"starfolks 049cropped\" width=\"1024\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/starfolks-049cropped1-1024x581.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/starfolks-049cropped1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>The Starfolk concoct fierce chamber pop lead by Brian Tighe (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aNItjjT5E1w\">The Hang Ups<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0_wWurRApdo\">The Owls)<\/a>, and featuring Allison LaBonne (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3vub28gr58A\">The Owls<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XoSOXAKBqqw\">Typsy Panthre<\/a>) and cellist Jacqueline Ultan (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2idsRRUXN6Q\">Jelloslave<\/a>, Saltee). &nbsp;The collaboration yields a sound palpably heavier than Tighe\u2019s back catalog. Dirty guitar riffs and insistent rhythms are interspersed with angelic moments where Tighe unveils some of his most McCartney-esque melody writing; steeped in lush, eerie harmonies and cello arrangements that pivot nimbly from textural, to pulsing, to soaring through a major melodic theme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The Starfolk released their <a href=\"https:\/\/thestarfolk.bandcamp.com\/\">eponymous debut<\/a> (with drummer\/singer Stephen Ittner) on Korda Records, and are currently wrapping up their second collection of songs (with drummer Greg Schutte) for release in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Starfolk concoct fierce chamber pop lead by Brian Tighe (The Hang Ups, The Owls), and featuring Allison LaBonne (The Owls, Typsy Panthre) and cellist Jacqueline Ultan (Jelloslave, Saltee). &nbsp;The collaboration yields a sound palpably heavier than Tighe\u2019s back catalog. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/?page_id=343\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-343","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/343\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thestarfolk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}