{"id":10024,"date":"2014-12-05T11:56:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T19:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=10024"},"modified":"2015-01-02T13:38:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T21:38:59","slug":"new-music-revue-brother-octopus-enter-canadian-indie-rock-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2014\/12\/05\/new-music-revue-brother-octopus-enter-canadian-indie-rock-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: Brother Octopus enter Canadian indie rock spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/a3783532415_10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10025 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/a3783532415_10-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"a3783532415_10\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/a3783532415_10-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/a3783532415_10-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/a3783532415_10-300x304.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/a3783532415_10-180x182.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/a3783532415_10.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brother Octopus<br \/>\n<em>Sea of Champions<\/em><br \/>\n(Oak Apple Records)<br \/>\n3.5\/5<br \/>\nWhen I first laid eyes on <em>Sea of Champions<\/em> by Brother Octopus, I immediately imagined it would be one of the oddest things I\u2019d ever listen to. I was anything but disappointed.<br \/>\nThe band is classified as indie rock over at iTunes, which I wouldn\u2019t argue against, but I\u2019d add that it sounds more like folketronic or disco-pop-rock.<br \/>\nThe story behind this album is that although it was fully produced in Alberta, each track was recorded and mixed in a different studio. And what I really like about <em>Sea of Champions<\/em> is that it sounds like they had fun making it, and that makes it difficult not to enjoy yourself by proxy.<br \/>\nIt seems to me that I\u2019m always hearing about all this great Canadian-based music, and I would not be shocked to learn that Brother Octopus is the kind of thing people are talking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brother Octopus Sea of Champions (Oak Apple Records) 3.5\/5 When I first laid eyes on Sea of Champions by Brother Octopus, I immediately imagined it would be one of the oddest things I\u2019d ever listen to. I was anything but disappointed. The band is classified as indie rock over at iTunes, which I wouldn\u2019t argue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10056,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10024\/revisions\/10056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}