{"id":10617,"date":"2015-05-13T06:35:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T13:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=10617"},"modified":"2015-05-11T10:37:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T17:37:19","slug":"new-music-revue-san-felix-dont-have-the-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2015\/05\/13\/new-music-revue-san-felix-dont-have-the-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Revue: San Felix don’t have the fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

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San Felix
\nFire Island
\n<\/i>(Independent)
\n2\/5<\/p>\n

Victoria indie-rock group San Felix\u2019s new album, Fire Island<\/i>, opens with catchy percussion and electric guitar in \u201cI Was a Vulture.\u201d However, the lead vocalist sings like he\u2019s coming down with a cold and the range narrows to the same few notes.<\/p>\n

After the first song, the instruments lose their lustre, constantly hinting at some variation to the melody, only to slide back down and get muffled.<\/p>\n

The abrupt nonsensical tempo changes in \u201cDay of the Rat\u201d make the hurrying crescendos leading to nowhere sound like bad cut-outs from a completely different song.<\/p>\n

In the end we\u2019re left with \u201cGarden Treasures,\u201d a five-minute track with a bland one-minute musical introduction followed by several more drowsy intervals. It was hard to remember most of the music, even while actively trying to listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

San Felix Fire Island (Independent) 2\/5 Victoria indie-rock group San Felix\u2019s new album, Fire Island, opens with catchy percussion and electric guitar in \u201cI Was a Vulture.\u201d However, the lead vocalist sings like he\u2019s coming down with a cold and the range narrows to the same few notes. After the first song, the instruments lose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10618,"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":[4,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-may-13-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t