{"id":3907,"date":"2012-09-05T08:52:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T15:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=3907"},"modified":"2012-09-06T11:08:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T18:08:59","slug":"two-to-get-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2012\/09\/05\/two-to-get-started\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Revue<\/em>: Two to get started"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Great Bloomers
\nDistant Fires
\n<\/em>(Dine Alone Records)
\n4\/5<\/p>\n

For an album full of songs about love, Great Bloomers sure do cover a variety of depressing subjects on sophomore album Distant Fires. In fact, these five Toronto-based, pop-influenced, folk rockers seem to have a lot on their minds as they explore the darker sides of love through the course these eleven songs.<\/p>\n

Most songs, for example, \u201cPale Morning Strangers,\u201d \u201cFear Will Make A Fool Of You,\u201d and \u201cSunday Clothes,\u201d all stick with the mellow, somewhat morose vibe that is fitting to the subject of the songs. However, some songs, such as \u201cSomething More\u201d and \u201cI Wanna Die Young,\u201d which tells the story of a guy whose relationship, which was full of love, has ended, and now feels as though he would be content to die, conceals the somewhat glum topic with a positive, upbeat tune.<\/p>\n

All of the songs provide strong lyrics backed up by quality music, demonstrated by a great guitar solo on \u201cSlowly In Your Gaze,\u201d and some awesome piano in \u201cThe Fire Burns Strong.\u201d Every song on this album engages the listener and is able to draw out emotions in an undeniably poetic fashion.<\/p>\n

-Lucas Milroy<\/p>\n

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Mother Mother
\nThe Sticks
\n<\/em>(Last Gang Records)
\n4.5\/5<\/p>\n

The fourth album from Vancouver\u2019s much-talked-about indie rockers Mother Mother might just have something to please everyone in a family.<\/p>\n

But the question is this: will that eclectic flavour be a blessing or a curse?<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with the youngest one first: my three-year-old loves the first single, \u201cLet\u2019s Fall In Love.\u201d With catchy lyrics like \u201cMommy did it, Daddy did it, funny little monkeys in the zoo do it,\u201d it\u2019s easy for him to sing along to.<\/p>\n

My wife loves the potty-mouthed Beatles feel of \u201cDread In My Heart.\u201d But she can\u2019t seem to put her finger on what Mother Mother\u2019s sound is and she\u2019s turned off by the Spacehog-esque \u201cBusinessman.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the title track, Mother Mother show off their staple unconventional lyrics and effortless harmonies\u00c9 and then very obviously show off some of their musical influences from both yesterday and today.<\/p>\n

As for me, I think the question that really begs asking is this: what\u2019s not to love?<\/p>\n

-Dan Darling<\/p>\n

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  Great Bloomers Distant Fires (Dine Alone Records) 4\/5 For an album full of songs about love, Great Bloomers sure do cover a variety of depressing subjects on sophomore album Distant Fires. In fact, these five Toronto-based, pop-influenced, folk rockers seem to have a lot on their minds as they explore the darker sides of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3908,"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":[4,11,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-issue","category-september-5-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907","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=3907"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3971,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions\/3971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}