{"id":1705,"date":"2016-10-23T14:25:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T05:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2016-10-23T14:26:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T05:26:41","slug":"exemia-this-is-synthform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=1705","title":{"rendered":"Exemia &#8211; This is Synthform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=536723196\/size=large\/bgcol=333333\/linkcol=2ebd35\/tracklist=false\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/exemia.bandcamp.com\/album\/this-is-synthform\">This is Synthform! by Exemia<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Qygen&#8217;s not the only one going in interesting directions with freeform this year &#8211; one of the best releases of 2016 so far has now arrived, courtesy of Exemia.<\/p>\n<p>Released earlier this month, <em>Synthform <\/em>is a pitch-perfect take on synthwave-as-freeform that really does sound like something new. The best frame of reference for us is probably Byproduct, but here with a harder edge that shows Exemia&#8217;s experience in the freeform scene. The addition of a mighty impressive Hyphen remix also means that this could be another\u00a0<em>Blue Revolver<\/em>-esque gateway into the wider genre for new listeners.<\/p>\n<p>My favourites so far are <em>Defend the Bass <\/em>and <em>Digital Blizzard<\/em>, but the whole album is top class and more than warrants a physical release. Instead it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/exemia.bandcamp.com\/album\/this-is-synthform\" target=\"_blank\">available on Bandcamp<\/a> for free, but Exemia&#8217;s work deserves a lot more support than that and naming your price is surely the way to go for music of this quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Synthform! by Exemia Qygen&#8217;s not the only one going in interesting directions with freeform this year &#8211; one of the best releases of 2016 so far has now arrived, courtesy of Exemia. Released earlier this month, Synthform is a pitch-perfect take on synthwave-as-freeform that really does sound like something new. The best frame [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finnish","category-japanese","category-releases","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1708,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/1708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}