{"id":10620,"date":"2015-05-13T06:37:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T13:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=10620"},"modified":"2015-05-11T10:38:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T17:38:44","slug":"new-music-revue-autopilots-dreamy-alt-rock-impresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2015\/05\/13\/new-music-revue-autopilots-dreamy-alt-rock-impresses\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Revue: Autopilot&#8217;s dreamy alt-rock impresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Autopilot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-10621\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Autopilot-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Autopilot\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Autopilot-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Autopilot-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Autopilot-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Autopilot-110x110.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Autopilot-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Autopilot-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Autopilot.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Autopilot<br \/>\n<i>Desert Dreams<br \/>\n<\/i>(Independent)<br \/>\n3.5\/5<\/p>\n<p>Saskatoon\u2019s Autopilot follow up their debut full-length, <i>Diamond Rough<\/i>, with this concise seven-song&#8230; EP? Mini-album? Album? Call it what you will, but I call it a good length, as the band\u2019s dreamy alt-rock doesn\u2019t have a chance to get stale before that refreshingly brief runtime is up.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I\u2019m worried about that: a song like the excellent \u201cOceanside\u201d gets it all right: toe-tapping rhythms that aren\u2019t cloying or too predictable but maintain just enough mainstream pop sensibility to appeal to the casual avocado-squeezing listener at the grocery store, should it ever come to that.<\/p>\n<p>But when they scrap their mainstream appeal, as on the darker and more meandering \u201cBattles,\u201d the band\u2019s real strengths shine through: a slight nod to shoegaze, a clear love of \u201980\u2019s rock and new wave, and just a whole lot of sincere feeling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autopilot Desert Dreams (Independent) 3.5\/5 Saskatoon\u2019s Autopilot follow up their debut full-length, Diamond Rough, with this concise seven-song&#8230; EP? Mini-album? Album? Call it what you will, but I call it a good length, as the band\u2019s dreamy alt-rock doesn\u2019t have a chance to get stale before that refreshingly brief runtime is up. Not that I\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10621,"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-10620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-may-13-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10620","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=10620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10622,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10620\/revisions\/10622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}