{"id":10599,"date":"2017-06-08T18:12:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T18:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=10599"},"modified":"2017-06-08T18:12:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T18:12:37","slug":"surprise-party-the-last-temptation-of-chris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2017\/06\/08\/surprise-party-the-last-temptation-of-chris\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise Party &#8211; The Last Temptation of Chris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/surprise-parttyy-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sadly, <em>The Last Temptation Of Chris<\/em> is the final album from Winnipeg\u2019s wannabe goths, Surprise Party. It\u2019s fitting of course, that these last songs would be riddled with the highest voltage electro keyboard riffs, the hollowed old time Barbershop-eque vocals and lyrics to set one\u2019s teeth on edge.<\/span><!--more-->\u201cSeven-layer cutie. I wanna take a dip\u201d, courtesy of track 2, \u201cGloom\u201d. If you have not shifted involuntarily in your seat, you are a sociopath and must seek professional help immediately. Surprise Party also included plenty of thunder elsewhere in their album.<\/p>\n<p>See track 3, \u201cThe Hunter\u201d: explosions of cymbals fused to guitar with extra crunch surrounded in a phase-shifting organ riff, and capped by lyrics that conjure the ever-lurking prospect of one\u2019s doom: \u201cI\u2019m the threat of the evening. I\u2019m the trouble. I\u2019m the bringer of death tonight\u2026I\u2019m the threat of the evening for you tonight.\u201d Chills, instant chills.<\/p>\n<p>For more chills, change to track 5, \u201cHex\u201d. Deep thumping drums slowly rev the song, like an old engine, and the spark plug is the keys\/organ. I don\u2019t know enough about engines to continue this metaphor, but those sounds are all played before singer Danny Hacking\u2019s voice checks in and sets its bed on fire. Track 9, \u201cAngel\u2019s Breath\u201d has a keyboard\/organ riff that feels like Darth Vader\u2019s WWE entrance music.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the tracks, Surprise Party has included a poem tucked into the liner entitled \u201cLiber 69\u201d. This poem speaks to the possibility of \u201cLast Temptation\u201d being a concept album: the characters \u201cSolstice\u201d and \u201cHank\u201d are referenced in \u201cLiber 69\u201d as well as track 1 (emphasis added), \u201cBlues In F (Solstice and Hank at the End of the Universe)\u201d. The general flow of the album hints at a continuation of story. Perhaps you are twisted enough to follow it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Omri Golden Plotnik<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, The Last Temptation Of Chris is the final album from Winnipeg\u2019s wannabe goths, Surprise Party. It\u2019s fitting of course, that these last songs would be riddled with the highest voltage electro keyboard riffs, the hollowed old time Barbershop-eque vocals and lyrics to set one\u2019s teeth on edge.<\/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-10599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599","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=10599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}