{"id":16359,"date":"2018-09-12T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=16359"},"modified":"2018-09-12T11:41:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T18:41:46","slug":"new-music-revue-victorias-the-bad-deliver-invigorating-groove-on-new-lp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2018\/09\/12\/new-music-revue-victorias-the-bad-deliver-invigorating-groove-on-new-lp\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: Victoria&#8217;s The Bad deliver invigorating groove on new LP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/The-Bad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16360 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/The-Bad-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/The-Bad-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/The-Bad-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/The-Bad-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/The-Bad-110x110.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/The-Bad-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/The-Bad-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/The-Bad.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bad<br \/>\n<i>Under Canadian Skies<br \/>\n<\/i>(Independent)<br \/>\n4\/5<\/p>\n<p>Local rockers The Bad have a real sassy, upbeat, invigorating groove on their new LP <i>Under Canadian Skies<\/i>, which follows up their 2015 debut,<i> Seasons<\/i>. The beats and riffs on this LP could jumpstart hearts, as could the energetic vocals in \u201cMoving to the Country.\u201d It\u2019s a perfect combination of whisky, hard work, and blue-collar talent.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s some variety, too: the band picks up grains of modern country that fade away partway through \u201cBooger,\u201d giving way to a really unique form of country-rock I\u2019ve never quite heard before.<\/p>\n<p>The band\u2019s chemistry is what keeps me coming back to this album. The heartfelt harmonics combined with the drums in the ballad-ish track \u201cWhere\u2019s My Home?\u201d are beautiful; that song\u2019s complex lyrics are reflective and capture universal Canadian memories, proving that this band is capable of pushing themselves lyrically.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The album is a near-perfect combination of country-rock, folk, and hard-working local spirit that is fresh and unique, yet familiar enough to be pleasantly recognizable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bad Under Canadian Skies (Independent) 4\/5 Local rockers The Bad have a real sassy, upbeat, invigorating groove on their new LP Under Canadian Skies, which follows up their 2015 debut, Seasons. The beats and riffs on this LP could jumpstart hearts, as could the energetic vocals in \u201cMoving to the Country.\u201d It\u2019s a perfect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16360,"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":[4,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-september-12-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16359","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=16359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16361,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16359\/revisions\/16361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}