{"id":556,"date":"2014-08-08T18:29:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T18:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/?p=556"},"modified":"2014-08-08T18:29:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T18:29:06","slug":"weekly-review-august-8th-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/2014\/08\/08\/weekly-review-august-8th-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Review: August 8th, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jars 20 Now Available to Pledgers<\/strong><br \/>\nIt doesn&#8217;t officially come out until August 19th, but Jars of Clay&#8217;s new record, <em>20<\/em>, is now available to everyone who supports their PledgeMusic campaign!\u00a0Head over to their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pledgemusic.com\/projects\/jarsofclay\">project page<\/a> to download and listen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pledgemusic.com\/projects\/jarsofclay\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-513\" src=\"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jars20cover-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"jars20cover\" width=\"189\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jars20cover-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jars20cover-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jars20cover-400x400.jpg 400w, http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jars20cover.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u00a0want to know what you think of the album! Send us a 3-5 sentence review at jarsofclayfans [at] gmail {dotcom} and we\u2019ll share it here on the official release day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jesus Freak Hideout Reviews Jars 20<\/strong><br \/>\nThe fine folks at the\u00a0Jesus Freak Hideout are singing the praises of <em>Jars 20<\/em> in their &#8220;Early Thoughts&#8221; review:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Alongside hosting online StageIt concerts (and then offering free downloads of those concert&#8217;s highlights), [Jars of Clay]\u00a0started a PledgeMusic campaign for a 20th anniversary acoustic double-album collection, with the songs voted on by their fans (two songs from each of their original studio albums minus their collaborative effort, The Shelter), plus two new songs. The result is enough to make many a longtime fan&#8217;s heart melt. While not quite as &#8220;reinvented&#8221; as their 2011 5-song acoustic EP (although a few songs contain some surprises not often heard on &#8220;acoustic&#8221; collections), most of these songs were delivered with a wonderful stripped-back approach which are at the same time fully true to their original tunes and yet also creatively reinterpreted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of their <em>Preview Review<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jesusfreakhideout.com\/cdreviews\/20.asp\">here<\/a>, and be sure to come back for their full review when the album drops on August 19th!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Join the Discussion!<\/strong><br \/>\nMembers\u00a0have been\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jarchives.websitetoolbox.com\/post\/20-thoughts-7025094\">sharing their thoughts<\/a> about the new album on our forum. Now is the perfect time to join our\u00a0community and start interacting with other Jars of Clay fans! <a href=\"http:\/\/jarchives.websitetoolbox.com\/register\/register\">Sign up today &#8211; it&#8217;s free<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jars 20 Now Available to Pledgers It doesn&#8217;t officially come out until August 19th, but Jars of Clay&#8217;s new record, 20, is now available to everyone who supports their PledgeMusic campaign!\u00a0Head over to their project page to download and listen. We\u00a0want to know what you think of the album! Send us a 3-5 sentence review &#8230; <a title=\"Weekly Review: August 8th, 2014\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/2014\/08\/08\/weekly-review-august-8th-2014\/\" aria-label=\"More on Weekly Review: August 8th, 2014\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,27,71,41,70],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-20th-anniversary","tag-forums","tag-jesus-freak-hideout","tag-pledgemusic-campaign","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}