{"id":17092,"date":"2019-02-06T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=17092"},"modified":"2019-02-04T13:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T21:08:00","slug":"new-music-revue-sammy-duke-sets-himself-apart-with-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/02\/06\/new-music-revue-sammy-duke-sets-himself-apart-with-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Revue<\/em>: Sammy Duke sets himself apart with new album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sammy Duke\u00a0
Terminus\u00a0<\/em>
(Independent)
4.5\/5\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With his second album, Terminus<\/em>, Ontario-based multi-instrumentalist Sammy Duke sets himself apart from the rest of today\u2019s folk-rock and world-fusion artists. Terminus<\/em>, which was recorded in a solar-powered studio, starts off with \u201cPressure,\u201d a hearty song with a pop-rock feel that is lively and upbeat yet depressing and introspective; it sets the tone for the album in a bold and relevant way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From there, things get increasingly acoustic with \u201cCast Away\u201d and \u201cSave It,\u201d but I don\u2019t mean \u201cacoustic\u201d in a quiet and harmonious sense. While the songs often start out that way, they quickly slide into dark and eerie territory; some of these tracks could be used for the rising action leading up to the chase scene of a Stephen King movie, while \u201cPerfection\u201d hit me with a surprising tranquil wave given its fiercely dark predecessors.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duke\u2019s voice\u2014with tinges of blues and folk\u2014is a raging forest fire that people need to hear, but one that he can quiet down at the drop of a dime to a calm spark of hope in the darkness.
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Sammy Duke\u00a0Terminus\u00a0(Independent)4.5\/5\u00a0 With his second album, Terminus, Ontario-based multi-instrumentalist Sammy Duke sets himself apart from the rest of today\u2019s folk-rock and world-fusion artists. Terminus, which was recorded in a solar-powered studio, starts off with \u201cPressure,\u201d a hearty song with a pop-rock feel that is lively and upbeat yet depressing and introspective; it sets the tone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17093,"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":[4,226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-february-6-2019"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17092","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=17092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17097,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17092\/revisions\/17097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}