{"id":10958,"date":"2018-01-22T16:34:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T16:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/?p=10958"},"modified":"2026-05-06T19:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:22:32","slug":"birthday-tapes-birthday-wishes-vol-2-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2018\/01\/22\/birthday-tapes-birthday-wishes-vol-2-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Tapes :: Birthday Wishes Vol. 2 :: Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Kaitlyn Emslie Farrell<\/strong><\/p>\n

Birthday Tapes have announced their second compilation album appropriately titled Birthday Wishes Vol. 2.<\/em> Featuring Seventeen artists, many of whom are local, Birthday Wishes Vol. 2<\/em> provides a wide range of steady pop and shoegaze. This is a mellow album, there\u2019s no way around that. So if you\u2019re looking for something to pump you up, try another route. If you\u2019re looking for a soothing array of blended melodies, electronic tones, and whispered vocals, then slap this in your tape deck. <\/span>With artists like housepanther, Jaywood, Rust Owl, Lounge FM, and Ciel, we know we can expect a dreary prairie vibe. But that\u2019s not necessarily synonymous with misery. This structure of music isn\u2019t set out to put a damper on your day, but to hold your hand and walk you through it, all the while shielding your freshly washed hair with a trusted umbrella. Birthday Wishes Vol. II will get you to wherever it is that you\u2019re going, and it\u2019ll get you there dry. There are out of towners on this diddy too, but they\u2019re outnumbered, keeping the focus on the locals and using the not so locals like sprinkles on a cake. Smaller in quantity, no less important. Give it a listen and see what it tastes like to you.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Kaitlyn Emslie Farrell Birthday Tapes have announced their second compilation album appropriately titled Birthday Wishes Vol. 2. Featuring Seventeen artists, many of whom are local, Birthday Wishes Vol. 2 provides a wide range of steady pop and shoegaze. This is a mellow album, there\u2019s no way around that. So if you\u2019re looking for something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1165,1179,360,453,471,562,563,747,1180,852,1104],"class_list":["post-10958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-birthday-tapes","tag-dream-pop","tag-folk","tag-indie","tag-jazz","tag-lo-fi","tag-local","tag-pop","tag-psychedelic","tag-shoegaze","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10958","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=10958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10960,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10958\/revisions\/10960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}