{"id":12031,"date":"2021-04-23T16:42:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T21:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/?p=12031"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:21:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:21:44","slug":"album-review-fog-lake-tragedy-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2021\/04\/23\/album-review-fog-lake-tragedy-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review :: Fog Lake :: Tragedy Reel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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by Zoe McCrea<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aaron Powell has become a household name when it comes to bedroom pop. If you\u2019ve ever spent hours scouring Bandcamp looking for your next lo-fi obsession, Powell\u2019s project Fog Lake was probably the exact sound you were craving. From a rural small town on the East Coast, Powell started his project Fog Lake after getting into scoring film with friends \u2013 which didn\u2019t come as a surprise to me. The layered soundscapes Powell creates tell the isolating stories of his songs as much as his writing does.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Tragedy Reel<\/em> is the sixth full length album from Fog Lake and it is as tender and reflective as we\u2019ve come to expect, but this time feels less nostalgic and more restless. Right off the bat the opening lines of \u201cCrystalline\u201d start illustrating a complicated relationship with coming home: \u201cFancy the way you let me down \/ no one gets even in this town. I\u2019ve been away for so long, stuck inside a whirlwind. Crystalline still sinking in, I masqueraded so long.\u201d\u00a0 It feels returning to a place that you\u2019ve outgrown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJitterbug\u201d the first single from the album, is understated yet bubbly and had me wanting to sing along before I knew the words. Muffled vocals and hazy synth ground the song, but it\u2019s a light and hopeful moment on the album. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The restless energy is ramped up on \u201cDakota.\u201d Powell taps into an Americana sound with violin, banjo and keys whirling together softly. \u201cSpeeding away south of North Dakota. A rockstar, guitar and a fast car. Cause I wouldn\u2019t wanna stay here with you but I don\u2019t wanna leave here without you.\u201d\u00a0 The song takes you to an open road, but not a road of possibility \u2013 more like an escape route that leads nowhere. Like trying to outrun your thoughts.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tragedy Reel<\/em> plays through like there are memories playing on projector screens all around you, revealing the people and events that shaped you; to learn from them and hopefully to heal. A major theme over this past year, for a lot of us, seems to be reflection – so I couldn\u2019t think of a better time for this latest Fog Lake album.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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by Zoe McCrea Aaron Powell has become a household name when it comes to bedroom pop. If you\u2019ve ever spent hours scouring Bandcamp looking for your next lo-fi obsession, Powell\u2019s project Fog Lake was probably the exact sound you were craving. From a rural small town on the East Coast, Powell started his project Fog […]<\/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-12031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12031","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=12031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12033,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12031\/revisions\/12033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}