{"id":10352,"date":"2016-06-15T14:31:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T14:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=10352"},"modified":"2016-06-15T14:31:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T14:31:25","slug":"orlando-gloom-an-evening-with-orlando-gloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2016\/06\/15\/orlando-gloom-an-evening-with-orlando-gloom\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Gloom : An Evening with Orlando Gloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10353\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/orlando_2-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"orlando_2\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/>At 17, when the rest of us were figuring out our angst across a spectrum of unsubtle emotional genres, or showing off our newly-minted blues riffs in suffocating adolescent throngs, sadboy Orlando Gloom was making digitally-processed cardboard-box beats and putting them on tumblr. <\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since then, Gloom\u2019s Bowiesque rotation of musical faces (Dave is Ok, Glass Random, Camp David) have each contained distinct variations on his brand of internet otherness. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An Evening With Orlando Gloom<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Gloom\u2019s most recent EP, is no exception. Aesthetically, Gloom is still internet through and through (\u201cI\u2019m afraid of being bored \/ So I\u2019ll take anything to let me stay indoors\u201d). But Gloom is tumblr with a twist: he cares. This duality is present throughout the EP; while he\u2019s definitely the figure nonchalantly sipping white wine on his album cover, he\u2019s also the guy dancing relentlessly on stage at every one of his shows. The irony-laden passion is also captured lyrically (\u201cI love you to the max\u201d). Sonically these songs are at home in the company of Neon Indian and M83, while showcasing a baritone register to rival Ian Curtis or Matt Berninger. The porno-shoegaze pads and video game synths he uses throughout the EP work seamlessly to advance the beat and accentuate the collection\u2019s greatest asset: these songs are catchy AF. Even if Gloom\u2019s aesthetics are \u2018seriously\u2019 bored-core, in the struggle between passion and apathy, the melodic strength of Gloom\u2019s arrangements make it a no-contest. (Self-released, orlandogloom.bandcamp.com) <\/span><b>Bryn Rieger<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 17, when the rest of us were figuring out our angst across a spectrum of unsubtle emotional genres, or showing off our newly-minted blues riffs in suffocating adolescent throngs, sadboy Orlando Gloom was making digitally-processed cardboard-box beats and putting them on tumblr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}