{"id":16423,"date":"2011-08-03T11:19:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T10:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=16423"},"modified":"2011-08-03T11:20:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T10:20:33","slug":"%c2%a8heaven-is-real%c2%a8-john-maus-and-the-truth-of-pop-by-adam-harper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=16423","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Heaven is Real&#8217; John Maus and the Truth of Pop by Adam Harper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_11-682x511.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_1\" width=\"682\" height=\"511\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-16434\" 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https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_31.jpg 1444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_41.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_41-340x255.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_4\" width=\"340\" height=\"255\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_41-340x255.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_41-682x511.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_41.jpg 1444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_5-340x255.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_5\" width=\"340\" height=\"255\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_5-340x255.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_5-682x511.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_5.jpg 1444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_72.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_72-682x511.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_7\" width=\"682\" height=\"511\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-16440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_72-682x511.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_72-340x255.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_72.jpg 1444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_81.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_81-682x511.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_8\" width=\"682\" height=\"511\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-16441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_81-682x511.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_81-340x255.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/heavenisreal_johnmaus_motto_81.jpg 1444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Heaven is Real&#8217;  <\/em>John Maus and the Truth of Pop by Adam Harper<\/p>\n<p>John Maus is one of the most intriguing artists in the millennial wave of lo-fi pop, assembling his unique and intimate language from synth pop, disco, baroque classical and church music. Yet Maus&#8217;s work is much more than another exercise in retroist hybridity, and his overtures on truth and love are, upon further listening, no mere ironic posturing. Does Maus have something to teach us about arriving at the truth through personal musical expression, or is he on a doomed Romantic adventure? Has he really discovered Heaven &#8211; and can he take us there?<\/p>\n<p>ISBN: 978-0-9569524-0-0<br \/>\n174.5 x 108 mm<br \/>\n64 pp, b&#038;w, perfect bound<\/p>\n<p>Design by Wayne Daly<\/p>\n<p>Published 28 July 2011 by Precinct<\/p>\n<p>D 6\u20ac<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/shop\/heaven-is-real-john-maus-and-the-truth-of-pop.html\">Buy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,252],"tags":[1672,1671,1673,1657],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16423"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16451,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16423\/revisions\/16451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}