
{"id":51630,"date":"2014-11-17T17:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/?p=51630"},"modified":"2014-11-21T14:36:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T13:36:23","slug":"kitsunesweet16-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/2014\/11\/listen\/kitsunesweet16-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"#KitsuneSweet16 &#8211; CITIZENS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re\u00a0back for another round of musical surprises!\u00a0This year,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1vPi67g\" target=\"_blank\">Kitsune Maison 16 &#8211; The Sweet Sixteen Issue<\/a>\u00a0is about\u00a0showcasing some of the most\u00a0exciting artists of tomorrow with a little \u2018teen years nostalgia\u2019 twist!<\/p>\n<p>This week\u00a0please give it up for our English lads <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizenscitizens.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">CITIZENS!<\/a>\u00a0and their exclusive single &#8216;Lighten Up&#8217; remixed by <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/tobtok\" target=\"_blank\">Tobtok<\/a>!<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>So do Kitsune\u0301\u2019s London darlings and indie pop masters still need an introduction? Watch this space as the band is about to come of age with the release of its second album pencilled for early 2015. Here, Totbok brings out the big synths and optimizes the sublime \u2018Lighten Up\u2019 to maximal effect.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s time to put\u00a0on those headphones and jump back in those early guitary years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/153680248&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p><p><strong>#KitsuneSweet16\u00a0digs into the artists\u00a0nostalgic-yet-slightly-embarassing teenage years\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN I WAS SIXTEEN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1\/ Picture\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/validation.maisonkitsune.bird.eu\/mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Citizens.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51638\" src=\"https:\/\/validation.maisonkitsune.bird.eu\/mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Citizens.png\" alt=\"Citizens!\" width=\"634\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Citizens.png 634w, https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Citizens-600x400.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a picture of Heatham House<strong>, <\/strong>a youth club where we used to hang out and drink stolen cans of lager. We didn&#8217;t do any graffitii though cause we couldn&#8217;t really paint. And though they put on loads of gigs here our band never played because no one had any use for a band doing instrumental covers of Nirvana.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2\/ Tune<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The song that reminds us\u00a0of being 16 is &#8220;Say My Name&#8221; by Destiny&#8217;s Child, which they played at our school disco and we tried to dance to and hang out with the cool kids who were drinking malibu from a hip flask. Destiny&#8217;s Child are a thousand times better than Malibu by the way. Fact. Also dancing wasn&#8217;t cool at school discos. Fellow men, it&#8217;s definitely cool to dance at clubs. Even badly. More dancing is needed!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sQgd6MccwZc\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>3\/\u00a0Memory<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As we formed out first\u00a0band at 16, we did an amazing cover of Heart Shaped Box by Nirvana. We didn&#8217;t have a singer so it was kind of like an instrumental version. More a b-side kind of thing. There is no footage of us on Youtube, this is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Check out CITIZENS! <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1sY5WW7\" target=\"_blank\">trailer<\/a> for their upcoming video #LightenUp !<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U0KW4qe8aB0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stream\u00a0Kitsun\u00e9 Maison 16 &#8211; The Sweet Sixteen Issue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spoti.fi\/1ujBfQE\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1wClbHW\" target=\"_blank\">Deezer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Order now your own compilation!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1vm4xgy\" target=\"_blank\">US<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1ufjX1C\" target=\"_blank\">Europe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>#KitsuneSweet16<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re\u00a0back for another round of musical surprises!\u00a0This year,\u00a0Kitsune Maison 16 &#8211; The Sweet Sixteen Issue\u00a0is about\u00a0showcasing some of the most\u00a0exciting artists of tomorrow with a&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[272,1448,14,5519,518,5536,5238,525,5321,5595,5518,5550,5528,4823,1167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}