{"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’s dreamy alt-rock impresses"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Autopilot\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Autopilot
\nDesert Dreams
\n<\/i>(Independent)
\n3.5\/5<\/p>\n

Saskatoon\u2019s Autopilot follow up their debut full-length, Diamond Rough<\/i>, with this concise seven-song… 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

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

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":"

Autopilot Desert Dreams (Independent) 3.5\/5 Saskatoon\u2019s Autopilot follow up their debut full-length, Diamond Rough, with this concise seven-song… 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 […]<\/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":[],"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