{"id":1200,"date":"2011-10-25T21:10:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T01:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2015-10-23T10:37:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T14:37:19","slug":"new-release-eight-and-a-half-scissors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=1200","title":{"rendered":"New release: Eight And A Half &#8211; Scissors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight and a Half are the most recent signing to Arts &amp; Crafts roster.\u00a0The band consists of Justin Peroff (from Broken Social Scene) and ex-The Stills Dave Hamelin and Liam O&#8217;Neil. Eight and a Half is synth heavy with a dark, moody yet beautiful sound on their first track, <em>Scissors<\/em>. They have also already received coverage from from Spin, Prefix and Consequence Of Sound and this was all prior to the single even being officially announced by the band.<\/p>\n<p>Eight and a Half is offering <em>Scissors<\/em> for free download on SoundCloud and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eight-and-a-half.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eight-and-a-Half.com<\/a>. A remix of the <em>Scissors<\/em> from L.A. based remixer TOKiMONSTA on Soundcloud and available for download exclusively from <a href=\"http:\/\/rcrdlbl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">RCRD LBL<\/a> right now.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F22889967&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=false&show_comments=false&show_user=false&show_reposts=false&color=f2f2f2\"><\/iframe>\n<p>The band&#8217;s debut full-length album is expected to be released through Arts &amp; Crafts in early 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Eight and a Half are the most recent signing to Arts &amp; Crafts roster.\u00a0The band consists of Justin Peroff (from Broken Social Scene) and ex-The <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=1200\" title=\"New release: Eight And A Half &#8211; Scissors\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,28,30],"tags":[104,189,419,494,1021,1209],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-music","category-new-release","tag-arts-crafts","tag-broken-social-scene","tag-eight-and-a-half","tag-free-download-2","tag-scissors","tag-the-stills"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/eight-and-a-half.jpg?fit=480%2C215&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-jm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1404,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=1404","url_meta":{"origin":1200,"position":0},"title":"Eight and a Half announce release date, cover art + tracklisting for debut","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"November 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Eight and a Half announced its self-titled debut album will be released on February 7, 2012. 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