{"id":793697,"date":"2019-03-07T22:03:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T05:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=805140"},"modified":"2019-03-07T22:03:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T05:03:55","slug":"hear-lion-babes-pet-shop-boys-inspired-western-world-featuring-raekwon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/hear-lion-babes-pet-shop-boys-inspired-western-world-featuring-raekwon\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Lion Babe\u2019s Pet Shop Boys-Inspired \u2018Western World\u2019 Featuring Raekwon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LionBabeCoverArt.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Lion Babe address modern isolation and find solace on the dance floor in their Pet Shop Boys-inspired \u201cWestern World,\u201d which features <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/raekwon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_raekwon\" data-tag=\"raekwon\">Raekwon<\/a>. The track will appear on their forthcoming sophomore LP, <em>Cosmic Wind<\/em>, due out on March 29th. It\u2019s the follow-up to their 2016 debut, <em>Begin<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWestern World\u201d interpolates Pet Shop Boys\u2019 hypnotic rhythms from their Eighties classic \u201cWest End Girls\u201d with added sultry funk twists and buoying hand claps. Singer Jillian Hervey croons about the loneliness and listless repetitiveness found navigating life in a \u201cWestern World\u201d where \u201cyou\u2019re on your own\u201d and it\u2019s \u201chard to find some peace.\u201d But some redemption can be found on the dance floor, where people can \u201clook for each other,\u201d she sings. \u201cTogether we can feel the beat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wu-Tang Clan\u2019s Raekwon continues the encouraging words. \u201cYou know how I pop,\u201d he raps. \u201cIt\u2019s just a radiant glow I got that make me keep radio on lock\/All about love we premiere\/Baby we here\/It\u2019s like this: let me lighten your bliss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s about the current climate of our American culture and soul,\u201d Lion Babe said of the song in a statement. \u201cHonored to have Raekwon help paint this wild picture of the present.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWestern World\u201d follows Lion Babe\u2019s previous release of LP single \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lion-babe-cosmic-wind-album-the-wave-video-784379\/\">The Wave<\/a>\u201d featuring Leikeli47, which is the official song for the \u201cKids Heart Challenge\u201d by the American Heart Association. The nationwide initiative encourages kids in participating schools to learn about heart health through dance and raises funds for the organization\u2019s life-saving mission.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lion-babe-raekwon-western-world-listen-805140\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lion Babe address modern isolation and find solace on the dance floor in their Pet Shop Boys-inspired \u201cWestern World,\u201d which features Raekwon. The track will appear on their forthcoming sophomore LP, Cosmic Wind, due out on March 29th. It\u2019s the follow-up to their 2016 debut, Begin. \u201cWestern World\u201d interpolates Pet Shop Boys\u2019 hypnotic rhythms from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-793697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 04:12:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}