{"id":10362,"date":"2016-06-21T22:13:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T22:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=10362"},"modified":"2016-06-21T22:13:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T22:13:46","slug":"royal-tusk-dealbreaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2016\/06\/21\/royal-tusk-dealbreaker\/","title":{"rendered":"ROYAL TUSK :: DealBreaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10363\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Royal-Tusk-DealBreaker-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Royal-Tusk-DealBreaker-2016\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rooted in passionate storytelling, this is the kind of music you want to groove to, and don\u2019t be fooled by the first song &#8211; this is most definitely a rock album. There is a theatrical nature to the album and its songs. In the song \u201cNot So Fast,\u201d we slow it right down to a close-your-eyes-and-sway piano intro that makes you want to fall asleep to gospel rock and be woken up by the break of sun on the horizon.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Not an easy feat to achieve and thus, a notable one, coining this album, officially, with the theatrics worthy of a rock-opera. The use of unique electronic support instruments are gleefully noted, with a particular shout out to the choral influence in the fourth song. \u00a0\u201cDealBreaker\u201d is slower than expected, but insistent in dance-worthy rhythm and all the good feels \u2013 no song of this nature is complete without some good guitar shredding \u00a0and a playful, jazzy, whistle-ending to finish off an emotional song.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The album right back into it with a driving second last song, \u201cAbove Ground\u201d and finally finishing the album with \u00a06 minutes and 18 seconds of softness and nostalgia with \u201cSo Long the Buildup.\u201d Be whisked away by the story that Royal Tusk sends you home with, but of course not before a gut-wrenching guitar solo. There is contrast but also fluidity between the delivery of the songs throughout, making it a dynamic album in its entirety. Each song is unique within its own right; even while mixing in tasteful intricacy to each one, they manage to keep the album groovy and moving. Royal Tusk knows their sound and how to manipulate it. (Self-released, royaltusk.com) <strong>Talula Schlegel<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rooted in passionate storytelling, this is the kind of music you want to groove to, and don\u2019t be fooled by the first song &#8211; this is most definitely a rock album. There is a theatrical nature to the album and its songs. In the song \u201cNot So Fast,\u201d we slow it right down to a [&hellip;]<\/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-10362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10362","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=10362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}