{"id":17793,"date":"2019-06-12T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=17793"},"modified":"2019-06-11T11:02:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T18:02:45","slug":"new-music-revue-steven-bowers-delivers-decent-but-flawed-fifth-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/06\/12\/new-music-revue-steven-bowers-delivers-decent-but-flawed-fifth-album\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Revue<\/em>: Steven Bowers delivers decent but flawed fifth album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Steven Bowers
Elk Island Park<\/em>
(New Pony Music)
3.5\/5\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a seven-year wait, Newfoundlander Steven Bowers\u2014who now calls Victoria home\u2014has released his fifth LP, Elk Island Park<\/em>. Co-produced by Juno-winning producer Colin Stewart, Bowers\u2019 latest effort picks up right where he left off with his last album, 2012\u2019s Beothuk Words<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elk Island Park <\/em>offers a collection of well-crafted, melodic stories, reminiscent of the works of David Gray and Damien Rice but with a distinctly Canadian feel. The band is tight, led by clean electric guitar, but Bowers\u2019 beautiful voice is the centrepiece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are several songs that stand out, including \u201cBen and Jesse Running\u201d and the bittersweet \u201cBad Friend,\u201d which expresses the challenges of maintaining a relationship through addiction recovery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elk Island Park <\/em>is a good album from start to finish, but it isn\u2019t without flaws. There were some questionable mixing choices\u2014for example, the drums are too loud and seem out of place on a few tracks. The overall energy on the record is probably better suited for an outdoor concert, so, as good as it is, it likely won\u2019t be on your playlist a year from now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, there\u2019s plenty to enjoy here.Bowers\u2019 vocals are the driving force on this album, but it is really his storytelling that you\u2019ll remember. The detail and imagery connect the listener emotionally on a level that is rarely achieved.
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Steven BowersElk Island Park(New Pony Music)3.5\/5\u00a0 After a seven-year wait, Newfoundlander Steven Bowers\u2014who now calls Victoria home\u2014has released his fifth LP, Elk Island Park. Co-produced by Juno-winning producer Colin Stewart, Bowers\u2019 latest effort picks up right where he left off with his last album, 2012\u2019s Beothuk Words. Elk Island Park offers a collection of well-crafted, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17794,"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":[4,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-june-12-2019"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17793","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=17793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17796,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17793\/revisions\/17796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}