{"id":26095,"date":"2020-09-09T08:14:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T13:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/?p=26095"},"modified":"2020-09-11T16:32:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T21:32:32","slug":"agent-envy-releases-debut-single-cover-of-deftones-my-own-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/agent-envy-releases-debut-single-cover-of-deftones-my-own-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Agent Envy &#8211; Releases Debut Single &#8211; Cover of Deftones &#8220;My Own Summer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. -->\n\n<p><strong>Agent Envy.&nbsp;Agent Envy<\/strong>, is the musical persona of Alejandra Jim\u00e9nez, an upcoming artist from Brooklyn, New York who leads a double life. Her sound combines a sensual allure with a hard-edged rock sound.&nbsp;When she\u2019s not working on music,&nbsp;<strong>Agent Envy<\/strong>&nbsp;is traveling the world working as a private investigator. Recently Agent Envy released herdebut single an eerie cover of the Deftones\u2019 classic, &#8220;My Own Summer&#8221;&nbsp;<br><strong>My Own Summer (Video)&nbsp;<\/strong>:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/44lJ83nWdOg\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/44lJ83nWdOg<\/a><br><strong><br><\/strong><br>Fittingly,&nbsp;<strong>Agent Envy&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;name draws inspiration from \u201cgritty, retro-futuristic 80s and 90s movies, crime novels and comic books.\u201d Along with movies and comics&nbsp;<strong>Agent Envy<\/strong>&nbsp;takes inspiration from 90\u2019s rock, metal and industrial artists like&nbsp;<em>Massive Attack, Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana<\/em>, as well as more subtle influences from more recent musicians like&nbsp;<em>Metric, St. Vincent, Phantogram, PVRIS, BANKS<\/em>. She also takes significant inspiration from film scores. These inspirations blend perfectly together to create the dark, cinematic, and moody feel to her music.&nbsp;(One Sheet Attached with more info)&nbsp;<br>When asked about the video for her cover of &#8220;My Own Summer&#8221;, Agent Envy said&nbsp;&#8220;The song, to me, represents the struggle with self-imposed isolation.&nbsp;&nbsp;For the&nbsp;video, I wanted to create something that captures that feeling, something cyclical and unsettling, like a bad dream you can\u2019t seem to wake up from.&#8221;&nbsp;<br><strong><em>Recent Press:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><strong>OUTBURN Magazine :<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/outburn.com\/news\/agent-envy-deftones-my-own-summer\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/outburn.com\/news\/agent-envy-deftones-my-own-summer\/<\/a><strong>V13 (FKA PureGrainAudio) :<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/v13.net\/2020\/08\/agent-envy-puts-a-whole-new-spin-on-the-deftones-classic-my-own-summer-premiere\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/v13.net\/2020\/08\/agent-envy-puts-a-whole-new-spin-on-the-deftones-classic-my-own-summer-premiere\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agent Envy.&nbsp;Agent Envy, is the musical persona of Alejandra Jim\u00e9nez, an upcoming artist from Brooklyn, New York who leads a double life. Her sound combines a sensual allure with a hard-edged rock sound.&nbsp;When she\u2019s not working on music,&nbsp;Agent Envy&nbsp;is traveling the world working as a private investigator. Recently Agent Envy released herdebut single an eerie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rock","8":"post_format-post-format-video"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26095"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26133,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26095\/revisions\/26133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}