{"id":13825,"date":"2018-12-28T09:23:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T09:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuartbuchanan.com\/?p=13825"},"modified":"2021-01-31T05:07:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T05:07:44","slug":"new-music-rabbit-island-deep-in-the-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2018\/12\/28\/new-music-rabbit-island-deep-in-the-big\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW MUSIC. Rabbit Island &#039;Deep In The Big&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stuartbuchanan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/RabbitIsland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13826 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/stuartbuchanan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/RabbitIsland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA few months ago, I revisited Rabbit Island&#8217;s brilliant debut album, 2011&#8217;s \u2018O God Come Quick\u2019. With no sign of a follow-up, I idly filed it away as a &#8216;one and done&#8217; moment of genius. In a joyful burst of synchronicity, I received an email about her follow-up the very next day. I can&#8217;t say that I willed this album into existence, but something about that timeline makes the dream seem very real. Perth&#8217;s Rabbit Island finds a new approach with \u2018Deep In The Big\u2019, her near-ASMR vocals and unvarnished story-telling now come layered under luscious reverb and elliptical, delayed piano. <!--more--><br \/>\n\u2018Deep In The Big\u2019 is a bewitching and beautiful record and one of my favourite Australian releases of the year.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/35LPdLH87r5w7QmuDIby8x\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Rabbit Island<\/strong> also appeared on the 2011 <strong>New Weird Australia<\/strong> compilation <em>Vox<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/stuartbuchanan.com\/new-weird-australia-vox\/\">Listen to the compilation and read the sleeve notes in the blog archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, I revisited Rabbit Island&#8217;s brilliant debut album, 2011&#8217;s \u2018O God Come Quick\u2019. With no sign of a follow-up, I idly filed it away as a &#8216;one and done&#8217; moment of genius. In a joyful burst of synchronicity, I received an email about her follow-up the very next day. I can&#8217;t say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[453],"tags":[1261,1610],"class_list":["post-13825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-rabbit-island","tag-stuartbuchanan-blog","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15257,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13825\/revisions\/15257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}