{"id":1618,"date":"2011-04-05T13:46:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T19:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2011-04-05T13:46:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T19:46:33","slug":"gary-war-police-water-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2011\/04\/05\/gary-war-police-water-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary War &#8211; Police Water EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/garywar-policewater.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1621\" title=\"garywar-policewater\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/garywar-policewater-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSlip  on your headphones, my dears, sit tight&#8230; and now we enter  hyper-space. The journey starts out with the sound of liquid swooshy  happy heartbeats on \u201cBorn of Light.\u201d Laser guns enter, blazing the way  for the galaxy, decked out in its best \u201980s night outfit, to strut its  stuff against a background of singing. I have no idea what the echoing  lyrics are going on about, but this isn\u2019t so bad \u2013 War\u2019s voice is just one of what seems like hundreds of effects and experiments, and as a whole, <em>Police Water<\/em> comes off as dizzyingly instrumental. \u201cOn Its Head\u201d again features  indecipherable urgent whispering amid a whirling, colourful soundscape  built with lashing drums and rapidly squiggling synth. We don\u2019t see any  melodies, just a stream of the same glittering ether leaking out into  formless forms, layered over at the end of the track with cacophonous  chords, what sounds like a plane taking off, and dashes of microphone  feedback. As we approach the centre of the EP, things start getting a  lot more dancey with a great squeaky interlude on \u201cGrounds for  Termination.\u201d And then there\u2019s the heavy, repetitive, exhilarating  \u201cSirens.\u201d This is where our voyage ends if you own the vinyl, but the CD  offers two bonus tracks, both of which are, as always, hypnotic,  high-energy, and much more accessible than you\u2019d ever imagined from the  start. (Sacred Bones Records,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacredbonesrecords.com\/\"> www.sacredbonesrecords.com<\/a>) <strong>Adrienne Yeung<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slip on your headphones, my dears, sit tight&#8230; and now we enter hyper-space. The journey starts out with the sound of liquid swooshy happy heartbeats on \u201cBorn of Light.\u201d Laser guns enter, blazing the way for the galaxy, decked out in its best \u201980s night outfit, to strut its stuff against a background of singing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[387],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-gary-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}