{"id":3512,"date":"2012-06-05T10:41:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T17:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2012-06-05T14:05:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T21:05:20","slug":"new-music-revue-men-without-hats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2012\/06\/05\/new-music-revue-men-without-hats\/","title":{"rendered":"Men Without Hats get anachronistic in the best of ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/3912161.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3513\" title=\"3912161\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/3912161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/3912161.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/3912161-180x160.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Men Without Hats<br \/>\n<em>Love in the Age of War<br \/>\n<\/em>(Big Fat Truck)<br \/>\n3.5\/5<\/p>\n<p>Everything old is new again. Or, at least, everything old has a new album.<\/p>\n<p>The tunes on \u201980\u2019s Canadian hitmakers Men Without Hats\u2019 new release, <em>Love In the Age of War<\/em>, harken back to a different era. A time when real instruments were boring, where synthesized sounds ruled the land. And that&#8217;s not all bad.<\/p>\n<p>Your preconceived notions may be right: this is an \u201980\u2019s revival album from a band that achieved its biggest success back then. But that doesn&#8217;t make it hard to listen to. The album is full of catchy synth pop, from the first single &#8220;Head Above Water&#8221; right down to the title track. Other tunes, like &#8220;Live and Learn,&#8221; are just aching to be remixed and become dance-club favourites.<\/p>\n<p>Men Without Hats may not be rewriting the history books with this latest attempt, but there&#8217;s no denying lead singer Ivan Doroschuk (who is now based here in Victoria) has something left to give the world. &#8220;All I want is the future,&#8221; Doroschuk sings on &#8220;Everybody Knows.\u201d Funny thing is, it sounds like it came straight from the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men Without Hats Love in the Age of War (Big Fat Truck) 3.5\/5 Everything old is new again. Or, at least, everything old has a new album. The tunes on \u201980\u2019s Canadian hitmakers Men Without Hats\u2019 new release, Love In the Age of War, harken back to a different era. A time when real instruments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3513,"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-3512","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\/3512","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=3512"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3515,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions\/3515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}