{"id":13342,"date":"2015-08-28T08:46:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T07:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=13342"},"modified":"2015-09-03T11:56:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T10:56:41","slug":"bring-the-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/08\/bring-the-a-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Beneath The Reef &#8211; &#8216;Bring The A Game&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13343\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/08\/bring-the-a-game\/beneath-the-reef\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Beneath-the-Reef.jpg?fit=1284%2C856&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1284,856\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Beneath the Reef\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Beneath-the-Reef.jpg?fit=640%2C427&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13343\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Beneath-the-Reef.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Beneath the Reef\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Welsh Ska\/Punk band, Beneath the Reef will be releasing their latest EP on 4 September. &#8216;Bring The A Game&#8217; consists of 6 tracks, with the first single being &#8216;Our Destiny&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fun and fresh, Beneath the Reef are a very popular live act, having supported legendary band The Selecter, New York&#8217;s The Slackers, and The Toasters. They also headlined a stage at 2014&#8217;s BoomTown Fair. The EP comes as the culmination of a year spent headlining their own UK\/European tour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Our Destiny&#8217; is a vibrant, exciting song, with all the elements one would expect from a Ska band &#8211; horns and high energy, it&#8217;s an uptempo number with a foot tapping beat that&#8217;s guaranteed to be earmworming for a while.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Find Beneath The Reef on their <a href=\"http:\/\/beneaththereef.co.uk\/\">website,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beneaththereef?fref=ts\">Facebook<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeneathTheReef\">Twitter<\/a>. Bring The A Game is available to preorder from the band&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/beneaththereef.bandcamp.com\/album\/bring-the-a-game\">Bandcamp<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L5s8WWVGrag\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welsh Ska\/Punk band, Beneath the Reef will be releasing their latest EP, &#8216;Bring The A Game&#8217;, on 4 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,640],"tags":[2625,2630,2626,286,77,2627,764,79,622,2585,2628,2629,2355,953],"class_list":["post-13342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","category-videos","tag-beneath-the-reef","tag-boomtown-fair","tag-bring-the-a-game","tag-ep","tag-new-release","tag-our-destiny","tag-punk","tag-single","tag-ska","tag-the-selecter","tag-the-slackers","tag-the-toasters","tag-wales","tag-welsh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-3tc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13782,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/09\/counting-coins-dont-look-down\/","url_meta":{"origin":13342,"position":0},"title":"Counting Coins &#8211; 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