{"id":13014,"date":"2016-11-30T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=13014"},"modified":"2016-11-28T14:59:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T22:59:46","slug":"new-music-revue-dante-decaro-ween-young-mammals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2016\/11\/30\/new-music-revue-dante-decaro-ween-young-mammals\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Revue<\/em>: Dante DeCaro, Ween, Young Mammals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dante DeCaro
\nKill Your Boyfriend
\n<\/i>(Last Gang Records)
\n4\/5<\/p>\n

Jazz legend John Coltrane once said that \u201cthe emotional reaction is all that matters.\u201d That sentiment is reflected on Kill your Boyfriend<\/i>, the debut solo EP from Wolf Parade\u2019s Dante DeCaro (who also played in Hot Hot Heat).<\/p>\n

In 24 minutes, across five beautifully written and recorded tracks, DeCaro manages to reach real emotional depths that reflect his years of experience with some of Canada\u2019s hottest bands.<\/p>\n

\u201cLove Like Thieves\u201d and \u201cOn the Loose\u201d open the EP with simple, stripped-down acoustic guitar, drumming, and keyboards that will stick with you long after you put down the album.<\/p>\n

\u201980s-era synth frames what seems to be a text-message conversation between two lovers on \u201cRwanda,\u201d which is followed by a plea for emotional assistance in \u201cRachel.\u201d The titular \u201cKill Your Boyfriend\u201d closes out the EP with a betrayed man suggesting that his lover should end him.<\/p>\n

DeCaro knows his emotions and, with warm sonic textures and the confidence of years, hits it out of the park. But the audience, like the characters inhabiting his well-crafted lyrical worlds, is left yearning for more. Hopefully we won\u2019t have to wait too long.<\/p>\n

-Patrick Newman<\/p>\n

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Ween
\nGodWeenSatan: The Oneness Live!
\n<\/i>(ATO Records)
\n4.5\/5<\/p>\n

On this live album, Ween play their classic GodWeenSatan <\/i>album, originally released in 1990, in its entirety during a 2001 live recording, just days after the events of 9\/11.<\/p>\n

Trying to define Ween as juvenile or parody misses the point; they love music, they have mastered the art of playing it, and they\u2019re in a class all their own. Never has this been more evident than during these 77 minutes of Promethean fire.<\/p>\n

Dean Ween shreds guitar on a level that places him in the guitar-gods pantheon. Gene Ween sings and muses as only he can, as if the world were coming to an end, because, at the time, it seemed like it might be.<\/p>\n

Every track here is pure gold. Lie on the carpet, crank the volume, and just listen; you\u2019ll feel like you\u2019re right there with them as they perform in that small bar, raging against a world gone mad with love and humour.<\/p>\n

The world needs this album now more than ever. So do you.<\/p>\n

-Patrick Newman<\/p>\n

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Young Mammals
\nJaguar
\n<\/i>(Odd Hours Records)
\n2.5\/5<\/p>\n

Jaguar<\/i> wants to be Britpop, but it just never quite gets there. \u201990s Britpop bands like The Charlatans, Supergrass, Blur, and the Stone Roses all had a fondness for \u201960s British pop; bright, catchy, mostly upbeat tunes about love and having fun were hallmarks of both genres.<\/p>\n

Texas garage-pop quartet Young Mammals channel those themes on their fourth full-length LP with some cool guitar riffs and easy, breezy vocals. Like the aforementioned bands, Young Mammals have a fondness for music of the past. Unlike them, Young Mammals aren\u2019t British; they lack the brashness of Oasis or the humour of Blur.<\/p>\n

Tracks like \u201cCrane\u201d and \u201cMorning Vice\u201d are too similar, while \u201cThe Slight\u201d and \u201cAuroras\u201d are interesting but not catchy or memorable enough to be strong pop songs. This isn\u2019t to say that they aren\u2019t talented, but it is to say that they are 20 years late to the party, and most everyone\u2019s gone home.<\/p>\n

-Patrick Newman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dante DeCaro Kill Your Boyfriend (Last Gang Records) 4\/5 Jazz legend John Coltrane once said that \u201cthe emotional reaction is all that matters.\u201d That sentiment is reflected on Kill your Boyfriend, the debut solo EP from Wolf Parade\u2019s Dante DeCaro (who also played in Hot Hot Heat). In 24 minutes, across five beautifully written and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13016,"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":[4,176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-november-30-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13014","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=13014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13018,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13014\/revisions\/13018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}