{"id":18161,"date":"2019-09-11T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=18161"},"modified":"2019-09-09T11:55:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T18:55:33","slug":"new-music-revue-eamon-mcgrath-delivers-emotion-and-variety-on-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/09\/11\/new-music-revue-eamon-mcgrath-delivers-emotion-and-variety-on-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: Eamon McGrath delivers emotion and variety on new album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Eamon-McGrath-Guts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18162\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Eamon-McGrath-Guts-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Eamon-McGrath-Guts-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Eamon-McGrath-Guts-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Eamon-McGrath-Guts.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eamon McGrath<br \/>\n<i>Guts<br \/>\n<\/i>(Saved by Vinyl)<br \/>\n3.5\/5<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Well-travelled Canadian singer-songwriter Eamon McGrath explores toxic masculinity from a heterosexual man\u2019s point of view on his new concept album <i>Guts<\/i>, which follows up his 2018 triumph, <i>Tantramar<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Guts<\/i>\u2019 dark lyrical imagery is spread across a diverse musical landscape. The album showcases McGrath\u2019s versatility as it transitions seamlessly from grimy, fuzzed-out grunge to twangy pedal-steel country. There are some great cuts here: \u201cYellow Sticker on an Empty Fridge\u201d is loaded with guitar hooks with a very rusty Matt Good and Crazy Horse feel; \u201cIn Like a Lion\u201d is a beautifully mastered country number that features July Talk\u2019s Leah Goldstein on backup vocals; the title track is a catchy piano ballad that suits McGrath\u2019s raspy voice perfectly.<\/p>\n<p><i>Guts <\/i>has good lyrics, good vocals, good production, and catchy melodies. It\u2019s packed with emotion and musical variety, and while it doesn\u2019t quite reach the bar McGrath set with his previous effort, it\u2019s a really good album; give it a spin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eamon McGrath Guts (Saved by Vinyl) 3.5\/5\u00a0 Well-travelled Canadian singer-songwriter Eamon McGrath explores toxic masculinity from a heterosexual man\u2019s point of view on his new concept album Guts, which follows up his 2018 triumph, Tantramar. Guts\u2019 dark lyrical imagery is spread across a diverse musical landscape. The album showcases McGrath\u2019s versatility as it transitions seamlessly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18162,"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":[4,239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-september-11-2019"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18161","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=18161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18163,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18161\/revisions\/18163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}