{"id":12462,"date":"2023-04-12T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/?p=12462"},"modified":"2026-05-28T17:09:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:09:05","slug":"single-review-amos-the-kid-enough-as-it-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2023\/04\/12\/single-review-amos-the-kid-enough-as-it-was\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review :: Amos the Kid :: \u201cEnough as it Was\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/f4.bcbits.com\/img\/a2107686532_10.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>by Noah Cain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEnough as it Was,\u201d the title track off Amos the Kid\u2019s forthcoming album, moves with the energy of the Bloodvein River in spring. Like an outburst of rage, it is short, cutting, and inevitable.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Anger has always run deep within Amos the Kid\u2019s catalogue. Even his sweet songs have an edge to them, a defiance, a recognition that besides love it\u2019s all bullshit. This current of anger can be hard to perceive from the surface, but you can feel its force when you\u2019re immersed in the music, attuned to it through some alchemy of setting and mood. I\u2019ve felt it along fields patterned with haybales and their long shadows. I\u2019ve felt it in the flat gray light of the Nesteweya river trail at night. Maybe you\u2019ve felt it too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While this anger has previously swelled to surface to be expressed directly, as in \u201cIsland of Troubles\u201d and \u201cI Don\u2019t Really Know Why,\u201d among others, lead singer and songwriter Amos Nadlersmith communicates it with new intensity and precision on \u201cEnough as it Was.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On this track, he gives us The Kid at his breaking point: stuck in small talk hell at a party or show having recently received the type of news that makes it clear what matters and what doesn\u2019t. As he runs the gauntlet of mundanity, his mask loosens and he begins responding to the gladhanding with darker and darker non-sequiturs, as if testing the limits of these blowhards\u2019 commitment to the social script: \u201cHey man how\u2019s your health? \/ I think I\u2019m going to hell.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually it becomes too much. \u201cI\u2019m confuuuuuused,\u201d The Kid bellows before the floodgates open and the music breaks down and the language devolves into mocking gibberish. His voice swells as he screams the type of questions that broke him: imitation as condemnation, the rage registering at a level beneath language or image, resonating through the body, terrifying and holy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEnough as it Was\u201d is Amos the Kid\u2019s first mic-drop moment. The album of the same name comes out May 5 via House of Wonders. On May 6 he celebrates the release alongside Tired Cossack at the West End Cultural Centre. Let\u2019s rage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FULL DISCLOSURE \u2013 I am not approaching this work from a neutral position. I am friends with Amos and co-wrote a couple of the songs on his forthcoming album. While this certainly influences my takes on his music, I don\u2019t believe it invalidates them. I love giving my interpretations of his music and hope you enjoy reading them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Amos the Kid - Enough as it Was (Live at House of Wonders)\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MXqwT3OYf4A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Noah Cain \u201cEnough as it Was,\u201d the title track off Amos the Kid\u2019s forthcoming album, moves with the energy of the Bloodvein River in spring. 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