{"id":3588,"date":"2021-05-31T17:31:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T22:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.streamapse.com\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2021-05-31T17:31:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T22:31:25","slug":"black-pumas-the-neo-soul-duos-breakthrough-now-with-new-songs-live-tracks-and-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=3588","title":{"rendered":"Black Pumas &#8211; The Neo-Soul Duo\u2019s Breakthrough, Now With New Songs, Live Tracks, And Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can\u2019t call Black Pumas a retro act, per se: The sound is too atmospheric, too intoxicatingly imprecise, something more remembered than recreated. The work of an Austin-based studio rat (Adrian Quesada) and a vocalist trained in church and forged busking on the Santa Monica Pier (Eric Burton), Black Pumas is to late-\u201960s and early-\u201970s soul as Quentin Tarantino movies are to vintage exploitation: a studied look at the past from a place that could only be now.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3589\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3589\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3589\" src=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Black-Pumas.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Black-Pumas.jpeg 700w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Black-Pumas-300x300.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Black-Pumas-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/artist-to-watch\/black-pumas-black-pumas-deluxe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Stream Black Pumas (Deluxe)<\/strong><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To wit, Quesada has said the spark for the project came not from listening to old soul records, but Ghostface Killah\u2014a vintage sound refracted through a contemporary lens. Ominous (\u201cBlack Moon Rising\u201d), uplifting (\u201cColors\u201d), and gently psychedelic (\u201cSweet Conversations\u201d), Black Pumas is the kind of album whose spirit lingers in the air like smoke. The deluxe version adds a handful of new songs that carry on the original&#8217;s essence: \u201cI&#8217;m Ready\u201d is all funk and swagger, as \u201cRed Rover\u201d evokes Southern gospel and \u201cBlack Cat,\u201d with its triumphant horns and tambourine, sounds as if it was pulled straight from the soundtrack of a blaxploitation film. Sprinkle in some engrossing live versions and a few imaginative covers (including an utterly breathtaking rendition of Tracy Chapman&#8217;s \u201cFast Car\u201d and a rework of the Beatles&#8217; \u201cEleanor Rigby\u201d) and you get an even more expansive map of all that makes Black Pumas tick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can\u2019t call Black Pumas a retro act, per se: The sound is too atmospheric, too intoxicatingly imprecise, something more remembered than recreated. The work of an Austin-based studio rat (Adrian Quesada) and a vocalist trained in church and forged busking on the Santa Monica Pier (Eric Burton), Black Pumas is to late-\u201960s and early-\u201970s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[161,520,521,522,237,523],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-black","tag-breakthrough","tag-covers","tag-pumas","tag-songs","tag-tracks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}