{"id":11129,"date":"2015-10-19T06:20:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T13:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=11129"},"modified":"2015-10-05T14:24:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T21:24:28","slug":"new-music-revue-paper-beat-scissors-hobo-electro-needs-more-electro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2015\/10\/19\/new-music-revue-paper-beat-scissors-hobo-electro-needs-more-electro\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: Paper Beat Scissors&#8217; hobo electro needs more electro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/a0477040317_10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11130 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/a0477040317_10-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/a0477040317_10-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/a0477040317_10-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/a0477040317_10-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/a0477040317_10-110x110.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/a0477040317_10-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/a0477040317_10-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/a0477040317_10.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paper Beat Scissors<br \/>\n<i>Go On<br \/>\n<\/i>(Forward Music Group)<br \/>\n3\/5<\/p>\n<p>Halifax-based Tim Crabtree\u2019s second effort under the Paper Beat Scissors name is a worthwhile listen for melancholic flannel-wearers and timid vagabonds alike.<\/p>\n<p>He describes his music as \u201chobo electro,\u201d and although the hobo aspect is definitely believable, I wish more of the latter could have been on display: commit, damnit!<\/p>\n<p>Crabtree\u2019s voice is thin, high, and mildly gritty and brings to mind artists like Will Oldham, Sufjan Stevens, and The Tallest Man On Earth.<\/p>\n<p>His lyrics are obtuse (example: \u201cLost in jaws\/your sense chewed out\u201d) and the instrumentation is rich and layered, including euphoniums, bassoons, and lap-steel guitar.<\/p>\n<p>While this is all well and good, I found myself enjoying the more minimal arrangements over the crescendo-ing walls of ambient whatnot.<\/p>\n<p><i>Go On<\/i>\u2019s best tracks are \u201cBundled,\u201d \u201cUnfazed,\u201d and \u201cWhen You Still,\u201d which was the best utilization of the hobo-electro aesthetic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paper Beat Scissors Go On (Forward Music Group) 3\/5 Halifax-based Tim Crabtree\u2019s second effort under the Paper Beat Scissors name is a worthwhile listen for melancholic flannel-wearers and timid vagabonds alike. He describes his music as \u201chobo electro,\u201d and although the hobo aspect is definitely believable, I wish more of the latter could have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11130,"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":[4,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-october-7-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11129","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=11129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11132,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11129\/revisions\/11132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}