{"id":10329,"date":"2016-01-19T16:25:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T16:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=10329"},"modified":"2016-03-10T13:56:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T13:56:31","slug":"listen-to-c-duncans-cover-of-cocteau-twins-pearly-dewdrops-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=10329","title":{"rendered":"Listen to C Duncan&#8217;s cover of Cocteau Twins&#8217; &#8216;Pearly &#8211; Dewdrops&#8217; Drops&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/C-Duncan-C-Duncan-EP.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10330\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10330\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/C-Duncan-C-Duncan-EP-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"C Duncan - C Duncan EP\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/C-Duncan-C-Duncan-EP-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/C-Duncan-C-Duncan-EP-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/C-Duncan-C-Duncan-EP.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scottish composer <a href=\"http:\/\/c-duncan.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">C Duncan<\/a>, who last year released his Mercury Prize-nominated debut album <em>Architect<\/em>, has a new EP on the way. The effort features four previously unreleased tracks and it will hit stores on February 19th.<br \/>\nAs the press release puts it, &#8220;the EP can be seen as a summary of the journey that the singer&#8217;s career has been so far; it brings together songs written at various points in his life and gives the listener practical insight into Christopher Duncan&#8217;s musical approach and inspirations&#8221;.<br \/>\nC Duncan quotes Cocteau Twins as a major influence and inspiration and as a tribute to the legendary Scottish band, the EP&#8217;s closing track is a wonderful cover of their 1984 track &#8216;Pearly-Dewdrops\u2019 Drops&#8217;. Take a listen now.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/240641807&amp;color=c41709&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">C Duncan has announced a number of shows throughout February and March, with several dates in the UK and France, including a show at London&#8217;s Union Chapel on February 19th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scottish composer C Duncan, who last year released his Mercury Prize-nominated debut album Architect, has a new EP on the way. The effort features four previously unreleased tracks and it will hit stores on February 19th. As the press release puts it, &#8220;the EP can be seen as a summary of the journey that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1284,47],"class_list":["post-10329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-c-duncan","tag-cocteau-twins"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10329"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10668,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329\/revisions\/10668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}