{"id":23372,"date":"2025-10-14T16:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=23372"},"modified":"2025-10-14T17:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:28:06","slug":"sml-share-second-single-chicago-four-from-forthcoming-album-how-you-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=23372","title":{"rendered":"SML share second single, &#8216;Chicago Four&#8217;, from forthcoming album <em>How You Been<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23373\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23373\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23373\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/SML.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Charlie Weinmann<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the zesty and absolutely mind-blowing \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=23295\">Taking Out the Trash<\/a>\u2019, LA\u2019s exploratory quintet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sml.band\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SML<\/a> have released another standout track from their upcoming album <em>How You Been<\/em>, out on November 7th through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intlanthem.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Anthem<\/a>. The new single, &#8216;Chicago Four&#8217;, is built from a live recording at The Empty Bottle, one of Chicago\u2019s most iconic small venues, and exemplifies the group\u2019s unique approach, where improvisation becomes the raw material for carefully sculpted compositions. &#8216;Chicago Four&#8217; arrives with another striking visual companion, a hand-drawn black and white animation from Nespy5euro, and you can watch it below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/10aQx9R7VaM?si=_NUpRik-Aj5t5itV\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the zesty and absolutely mind-blowing \u2018Taking Out the Trash\u2019, LA\u2019s exploratory quintet SML have released another standout track from their upcoming album How You Been, out on November 7th through International Anthem. The new single, &#8216;Chicago Four&#8217;, is built from a live recording at The Empty Bottle, one of Chicago\u2019s most iconic small venues, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3428],"class_list":["post-23372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-sml"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23372","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=23372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23375,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23372\/revisions\/23375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}