{"id":15558,"date":"2018-03-07T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=15558"},"modified":"2018-03-05T15:18:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T23:18:50","slug":"new-music-revue-joshua-hyslops-echos-aint-broke-and-not-in-need-of-fixing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2018\/03\/07\/new-music-revue-joshua-hyslops-echos-aint-broke-and-not-in-need-of-fixing\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: Joshua Hyslop&#8217;s <em>Echos<\/em> ain&#8217;t broke and not in need of fixing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hyslop_4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15559 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hyslop_4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hyslop_4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hyslop_4-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hyslop_4-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hyslop_4-110x110.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hyslop_4-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hyslop_4-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hyslop_4.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joshua Hyslop<br \/>\n<i>Echos<br \/>\n<\/i>(Nettwerk Music Group)<br \/>\n4\/5<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver-based singer-songwriter Joshua Hyslop\u2019s third album, <i>Echos<\/i>, encompasses everything I love about the genre.<\/p>\n<p>With a combination of heavy acoustic guitar and whispered-tight-to-the-microphone lyrics of heartbreak, <i>Echos<\/i> is soothing and easy on the ears. Tracks such as \u201cFall\u201d and \u201cHow You\u2019ve Been\u201d are reminiscent of Sleeping at Last and Gregory Allen Isakov. \u201cInto the Dark\u201d brings a refreshing folksy sound that makes me want to drink a pint around a campfire, and \u201cStand Your Ground\u201d provides a ribbon of southern soul.<\/p>\n<p>The album\u2019s 11 tracks unfold like a rom-com that can be predicted from the opening shot, but the beautiful part is that I don\u2019t really care. It\u2019s well executed, charming, and comfortable. While I would have loved an infusion of something unexpected, Hyslop provides a solid album worthy of sipping Starbucks to.<\/p>\n<p>If it ain\u2019t broke, don\u2019t fix it: <i>Echos<\/i> is the perfect example of this philosophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Hyslop Echos (Nettwerk Music Group) 4\/5 Vancouver-based singer-songwriter Joshua Hyslop\u2019s third album, Echos, encompasses everything I love about the genre. With a combination of heavy acoustic guitar and whispered-tight-to-the-microphone lyrics of heartbreak, Echos is soothing and easy on the ears. Tracks such as \u201cFall\u201d and \u201cHow You\u2019ve Been\u201d are reminiscent of Sleeping at Last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15559,"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":[4,208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-march-7-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15558","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=15558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15560,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15558\/revisions\/15560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}