{"id":26794,"date":"2017-04-15T10:16:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T09:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=26794"},"modified":"2017-04-15T10:16:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T09:16:38","slug":"analog-monoxide-playing-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/04\/analog-monoxide-playing-tag\/","title":{"rendered":"Analog Monoxide &#8211; &#8216;Playing Tag&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font_8\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"26805\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/04\/analog-monoxide-playing-tag\/analog-monoxide-6\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Analog-Monoxide-6.jpg?fit=1365%2C2048&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1365,2048\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Analog Monoxide 6\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Analog-Monoxide-6.jpg?fit=640%2C960&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26805\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Analog-Monoxide-6.jpg?resize=640%2C960&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"font_8\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Norwegian artist Stian H\u00f8yberg, recording as Analog Monoxide, today releases his second album, &#8216;Songs For The Road&#8217;, a true hybrid of jazz improvisation, funk, experimental electronica, and blues.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p class=\"font_8\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Coming from the coastal town of \u00d8rsta, Stian has been recording music since he was very young, picking up whatever instrument\u00a0and attending every music class he could find. It was a simple process\u00a0to move into electronica, causing his music writing to evolve further. &#8216;Songs For The Road&#8217; is a one-man show, with Stian performing keyboards, guitars, drums, drum machines, synths, and vocals &#8211; practising on\u00a0any instrument he wasn&#8217;t familiar with until he knew it perfectly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"26807\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/04\/analog-monoxide-playing-tag\/analog-monoxide-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Analog-Monoxide-4.jpg?fit=1536%2C1536&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1536,1536\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Analog Monoxide 4\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Analog-Monoxide-4.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26807\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Analog-Monoxide-4.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Songs For The Road&#8217; is based on personal and emotional events, with his sound something akin to Thievery Corporation, Portishead, and maybe a bit of Tom Waits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">H\u00f8yberg considers music to be a healing tool, and hopes it has the same effect on his audiences as it does him.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"font_8\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt\u2019s dark, but there\u2019s a light at the end of the tunnel. Perhaps I\u2019m communicating from the midpoint\u2026we\u2019re all here sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"font_8\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"wixGuard\">\u200b&#8217;Playing Tag&#8217; is a swirling compote of synth patterns\u00a0and beats, sounding somewhat like a slowed-down version\u00a0of Fatboy Slim&#8217;s &#8216;Weapon Of Choice&#8217;. Stian&#8217;s vocals ebb in and out of the soothing\u00a0rhythms, the track having a 70s-80s style ambience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Analog Monoxide is online on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mischlameth\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/analogmonoxide\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/analogmonoxide\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, and his <a href=\"http:\/\/analogmonoxide.com\" target=\"_blank\">official website<\/a>. &#8216;Songs For The Road&#8217;\u00a0is available from <a href=\"https:\/\/analogmonoxide.bandcamp.com\/releases\" target=\"_blank\">Bandcamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Playing Tag - Analog Monoxide by Analog Monoxide\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F312425311&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=960&#038;maxwidth=640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian artist Stian H\u00f8yberg, recording as Analog Monoxide, today releases his second album, &#8216;Songs For The Road&#8217;, a true hybrid of jazz improvisation, funk, experimental electronica, and blues. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":26806,"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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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":[57,9],"tags":[9670,1439,3890,144,77,1072,9672,9669,9671,837],"class_list":["post-26794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-artists","category-new-releases","tag-analog-monoxide","tag-electronica","tag-electronica-pop","tag-new-album","tag-new-release","tag-norway","tag-playing-tag","tag-songs-for-the-road","tag-stian-hoyberg","tag-synthesiser"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-6Ya","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":76679,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2022\/07\/norwegian-legends-a-ha-return-with-new-single-im-in-and-announce-new-studio-album-and-film-true-north\/","url_meta":{"origin":26794,"position":0},"title":"Norwegian Legends a-ha Return With New Single &#8216;I&#8217;m In&#8217; And Announce New Studio Album And Film, &#8216;True North&#8217;","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"11\/07\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"With their first single in seven years, a-ha return with 'I'm In'. 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