{"id":24723,"date":"2023-11-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=24723"},"modified":"2023-11-24T11:06:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T19:06:28","slug":"new-music-revue-clowns-tap-into-hardcore-epicness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2023\/11\/29\/new-music-revue-clowns-tap-into-hardcore-epicness\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: Clowns tap into hardcore epicness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ENDLESS_2000x.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-24724\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ENDLESS_2000x-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ENDLESS_2000x-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ENDLESS_2000x-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ENDLESS_2000x-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ENDLESS_2000x-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ENDLESS_2000x-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ENDLESS_2000x.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clowns<br \/>\n<i>Endless<br \/>\n<\/i>(Fat Wreck Chords)<br \/>\n4.5\/5<\/p>\n<p>Good hardcore punk rock shocks a person into existence. Melbourne-based Clowns\u2019 latest album <i>Endless<\/i> effectively achieves this through its thematic approach\u2014the underlying concept being immortality\u2014and by drawing on the genre\u2019s many influences.<\/p>\n<p>After a brief intro featuring a primal scream, the band dives into opening track \u201cFormaldehyde,\u201d a declaration of thematic intention over a skate-punk-style shout-chorus. The tracks that follow provide similar catharsis, notably \u201cBisexual Awakening,\u201d exploring the power of self-actualization, or \u201cZ3r0s&amp;0n3s,\u201d which touches on the album\u2019s theme through a fictional notion of uploading one\u2019s consciousness digitally.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lyrically the album is varied, and while exhibiting death-metal-style growling on tracks like \u201cDeath Wish,\u201d it remains audible and accessible. The instrumentation strikes a balance between the simplicity of punk and the more involved metal-esque guitar and keyboard work.<\/p>\n<p><i>Endless<\/i> is an epic representation of immortality in its many forms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clowns Endless (Fat Wreck Chords) 4.5\/5 Good hardcore punk rock shocks a person into existence. Melbourne-based Clowns\u2019 latest album Endless effectively achieves this through its thematic approach\u2014the underlying concept being immortality\u2014and by drawing on the genre\u2019s many influences. After a brief intro featuring a primal scream, the band dives into opening track \u201cFormaldehyde,\u201d a declaration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24724,"comment_status":"closed","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":[4,301],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-november-29-2023"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24723","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=24723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24725,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24723\/revisions\/24725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}