{"id":57528,"date":"2019-11-25T11:57:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T11:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=57528"},"modified":"2019-11-25T11:57:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T11:57:20","slug":"bunny-monique-by-hunting-memories-is-the-diary-of-an-art-school-dropout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/11\/bunny-monique-by-hunting-memories-is-the-diary-of-an-art-school-dropout\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bunny &#038; Monique&#8217; By Hunting Memories Is The Diary Of An Art School Dropout"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8216;Bunny &amp; Monique&#8217; is an interesting piece, to say the least. Coming from &#8216;Hunting Memories&#8217;, the album named for the nom de plume of visual artist Tahiti Pehrson, the song is a languid vocal overtop of an upbeat and frantic instrumental.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Overall &#8216;Bunny &amp; Monique&#8217; is fun and appealing, with a style reminding us of earlier artists such as Talking Heads, and Devo. Effectively it&#8217;s a stream of consciousness storming towards us at 33RPM, thoughts pouring out of Pehrson&#8217;s mind. The track comes from the self-titled long player, &#8216;Hunting Memories&#8217;, which is set for release on 20 December, and it&#8217;s certainly worth a few listens right through, as Pehrson rambles &#8211; almost incoherently &#8211; about a Christmas party where he seems to be pursuing Bunny (or is it Monique?). But the pair seem to be involved with each other&#8230;it&#8217;s confusing but it effectively conveys the snippets of conversation you can pick up in a crowded room where the music is just that little bit too loud&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The song, like the rest of the album, was recorded in dribs and drabs, in a haphazard manner, first takes often used, giving it a real life effect. It&#8217;s not over-produced, it feels homey, real.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Visual Artist Tahiti Pehrson has created a set of songs that are captivating in their storytelling and truly unique in their presentation. There is an unguarded rawness and insight in these songs that is genuine and rare.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Hunting Memories&#8217; is set for release on December 20. You can find Hunting Memories online on <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/DowdInsta\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/DowdFacebook\">Facebook<\/a>, and his\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/HuntMemsDowd\">Official Website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Listen to &#8216;Bunny &amp; Monique&#8217; here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hunting Memories - &quot;Bunny &amp; Monique&quot; by Team Clermont\" 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%2F708911020&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=960&#038;maxwidth=640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You can watch a preview of &#8216;Hunting Memories&#8217; the album on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=evLW9C3HzFU&amp;feature=emb_titlev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Bunny &#038; Monique&#8217; is an interesting piece, to say the least. Coming from &#8216;Hunting Memories&#8217;, the album named for the nom de plume of visual artist Tahiti Pehrson, the song is a languid vocal overtop of an upbeat and frantic instrumental.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":57545,"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":[7,57,9,21453,21445,21446,640],"tags":[23648,23647,11720,144,370,116,79,23649,81],"class_list":["post-57528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-new-artists","category-new-releases","category-new-singles","category-reviews","category-single-reviews","category-videos","tag-bunny-monique","tag-hunting-memories","tag-lisa-hafey","tag-new-album","tag-new-single","tag-review","tag-single","tag-tahiti-pehrson","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-eXS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64810,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/09\/tla-channel-the-80s-in-film-and-tv-with-double-a-side-hungry-for-the-dark-and-among-the-living\/","url_meta":{"origin":57528,"position":0},"title":"TLA Channel The 80s In Film And TV With Double A Side &#8216;Hungry For The Dark&#8217; 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