{"id":15016,"date":"2017-11-15T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=15016"},"modified":"2017-11-14T10:38:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T18:38:51","slug":"new-music-revue-matt-mays-delivers-a-great-album-in-once-upon-a-hell-of-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/11\/15\/new-music-revue-matt-mays-delivers-a-great-album-in-once-upon-a-hell-of-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Revue<\/em>: Matt Mays delivers a great album in Once Upon a Hell of a Time<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Matt Mays
\nOnce Upon a Hell of a Time
\n<\/i>(Warner Music Canada)
\n4\/5<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been five years since the release of Coyote<\/i>\u2014which won the 2014 Juno for Rock Album of the Year\u2014and Halifax singer\/songwriter Matt Mays has picked up right where he left off. His sixth studio release\u2014and second solo effort\u2014is a great album, full stop.<\/p>\n

Once Upon a Hell of a Time <\/i>offers a window into the life of Matt Mays. He takes us on a wild ride of poetic memoir, delving into love, loneliness, and loss\u2014and the resulting self-medicating\u2014all the while remaining true to his own style of rock, which is reminiscent of Matt Good and Joel Plaskett.<\/p>\n

On first listen, the album seems to lack a radio hit like 2012\u2019s \u201cTake It on Faith,\u201d but solid tracks littered throughout Once Upon a Hell of a Time<\/i> will grow on the listener. The album has a complex, mid-\u201990s Canadian-rock sound, highlighted by the first single, \u201cFaint of Heart,\u201d and deep cuts like \u201cStation Out of Range\u201d and \u201cOla Volo.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt Mays Once Upon a Hell of a Time (Warner Music Canada) 4\/5 It\u2019s been five years since the release of Coyote\u2014which won the 2014 Juno for Rock Album of the Year\u2014and Halifax singer\/songwriter Matt Mays has picked up right where he left off. His sixth studio release\u2014and second solo effort\u2014is a great album, full […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15017,"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":[4,202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-november-15-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15016","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=15016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15018,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15016\/revisions\/15018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}