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by Grace Hrabi<\/strong><\/p>\n On February 9th, Winnipeg anti-rock band Trampoline released their latest musical enterprise, Happy Crimes<\/em>, at the West End Cultural Centre. The album is a full-length rock musical that tells the story of a man who is tired of trying to make himself happy; who wants to be better, but doesn\u2019t know how; who believes there is an imminent apocalypse, internal or otherwise, about to take place.<\/p>\n With punchy honesty and imaginative arrangements, Michelle Lecnik, Joey Penner, and Steve Martens follow the man\u2019s journey as he discovers if he can \u201caccept love and allow himself to feast on life’s harvest in spite of its perils.\u201d<\/p>\n With bouncy quirkiness, Trampoline take on different genres, drawing from a variety of influences. The elements of musical theatre and rock fuse effortlessly on the track \u201cDon\u2019t You Want Love.\u201d Opening with angular interplay between the guitar and bass and funky percussion fills, Michelle confronts the listener, asking \u201cdon\u2019t you want somebody who wants to celebrate \/ everything you are on any given day?\u201d The song spontaneously transitions to a heavy rock instrumental reminiscent of Weezer, before fading to a chant of the song title, which turns Queen\u2019s \u201cSomebody To Love\u201d on it\u2019s head. The contrast of the three sections gives the song a cinematic quality that is heard throughout the album.<\/p>\n Michelle\u2019s provocative vocal delivery – comparable to Patti Smith or Fiona Apple – is tailored to suit the message of each song on Happy Crimes<\/em>. From the intensity of \u201cMary Alice\u201d to the sweetness of \u201cTwins on Fire,\u201d she is a singer who employs a wide range of vocal techniques to get her point across with sincerity. Michelle\u2019s hope is \u201cthat the listener will resonate with the emotional charges embedded in the songs and, best case scenario, [the music] will awaken feelings that \u2026 have been dissociated.\u201d<\/p>\n Trampoline will be taking this show on the road with a Canadian tour heading West this Spring and East this coming Fall.<\/p>\n Recommended if you like The C.A.R.P, Sundays from 6:30pm \u2013 8:00pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Grace Hrabi On February 9th, Winnipeg anti-rock band Trampoline released their latest musical enterprise, Happy Crimes, at the West End Cultural Centre. The album is a full-length rock musical that tells the story of a man who is tired of trying to make himself happy; who wants to be better, but doesn\u2019t know how; […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-11319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11319","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=11319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11322,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11319\/revisions\/11322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}