{"id":19948,"date":"2020-09-25T09:16:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T16:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=19948"},"modified":"2020-09-25T09:23:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T16:23:48","slug":"new-music-revue-lola-parks-delivers-true-west-coast-sounds-on-no-apologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2020\/09\/25\/new-music-revue-lola-parks-delivers-true-west-coast-sounds-on-no-apologies\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: Lola Parks delivers true west-coast sounds on <em>No Apologies<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lola-Parks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-19949 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lola-Parks-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lola-Parks-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lola-Parks-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lola-Parks.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lola Parks<br \/>\n<em>No Apologies<br \/>\n<\/em>(Independent)<br \/>\n4\/5<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver-based singer\/songwriter Lola Parks&#8217; new release, <em>No Apologies, <\/em>is no dearth of honest ultimatums. Parks\u2014real name Sandy Powlik, who formerly called Victoria home\u2014is truly gifted, with a beautiful voice and the ability to create melodic hooks and insightful yet buoyant lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>As euphonious as they are memorable\u2014the folk\/blues\/jazz\/country blend has a hip-hop ring to it\u2014these tracks are multilayered, both dark and bright, both calm and frenetically fiery-spirited. \u201cDreamer\u201d invites us to dream along while \u201cFreight Train\u201d pairs violent metaphors with pretty ones. Powlik sings that \u201clove is like a shotgun\/it leaves us blown apart,\u201d asking \u201cwhat if we can be happy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Armed with freight-train momentum and a voice softer than silk, Powlik argues that we are worth fighting for and urges that we look past the mess to see with fresh eyes, ones that believe. <em>No Apologies<\/em> reeks of west-coast salt\u2014brambly yet uplifting, aching yet sighing, it shimmers like spiderwebs spun on sun-showered Canada Thistle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lola Parks No Apologies (Independent) 4\/5 Vancouver-based singer\/songwriter Lola Parks&#8217; new release, No Apologies, is no dearth of honest ultimatums. Parks\u2014real name Sandy Powlik, who formerly called Victoria home\u2014is truly gifted, with a beautiful voice and the ability to create melodic hooks and insightful yet buoyant lyrics. As euphonious as they are memorable\u2014the folk\/blues\/jazz\/country blend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19949,"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":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19948","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=19948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19951,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19948\/revisions\/19951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}