{"id":4917,"date":"2017-01-25T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=4917"},"modified":"2017-01-24T17:25:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T01:25:18","slug":"editors-picks-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/editors-picks-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Editor\u2019s picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Ashton Newton\r\nEntertainment Editor<\/pre>\n<p>Editor\u2019s Recommendation:<\/p>\n<p>The xx have recently released their third studio album \u201cI See You\u201d and, as expected, it\u2019s fantastic. For those unfamiliar with The xx, they\u2019re an indie pop band that has previously focused on mellow music and a vocal duo.<br \/>\nThe third album is a mix of their atmospheric style and some more upbeat music. \u201cI See You\u201d has been great to shuffle through and listen to on every occasion, the music feels made to fit into almost any daily situation.<\/p>\n<p>The first single, \u201cOn Hold,\u201d released a few months ago and featured a much different upbeat style while reliant on the vocals of the band\u2019s previous albums.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend checking it out. \u201cI See You\u201d is an enjoyable and inviting album.<\/p>\n<p>Editor\u2019s Disparagement:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2017\/01\/The-xx-colorbillboard.com_-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"377\" height=\"249\" class=\"wp-image-4946 alignright\" \/>I\u2019ve had every Playstation system since the original, so when a classic game gets re-released, the nostalgia is exciting. Lately though, companies have been<br \/>\ncashing in on the nostalgia and giving consumers less than quality products.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarvel Ultimate Alliance\u201d and the sequel were rebooted on Playstation 4. This was exciting until I saw that the game cost $50 and the quality wasn\u2019t improved in any way.<\/p>\n<p>This is just one example of the constant overpricing and letdowns of rebooted games, a growing trend in video games that I\u2019m fed up with.<\/p>\n<p>Contact the author at journalentertainment@wou.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Ashton Newton Entertainment Editor Editor\u2019s Recommendation: The xx have recently released their third studio album \u201cI See You\u201d and, as expected, it\u2019s fantastic. For those unfamiliar with The xx, they\u2019re an indie pop band that has previously focused on mellow music and a vocal duo. The third album is a mix of their atmospheric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":937,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}