{"id":1631,"date":"2011-04-12T12:16:36","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T18:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2011-04-12T12:16:36","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T18:16:36","slug":"flying-fox-and-the-hunter-gatherers-hans-my-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2011\/04\/12\/flying-fox-and-the-hunter-gatherers-hans-my-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Fox and the Hunter Gatherers &#8211; Hans My Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying-fox.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1634\" title=\"cs1025r\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying-fox-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDon\u2019t  get me wrong: There is a distinct lack of hose and medieval  gallivanting on this album, but nevertheless, what Flying Fox and the  Hunter Gatherers\u2019 first full-length album immediately brings to mind is a  dark and obscure folk tale with origins somewhere in the 10th century.  What does this sound like? Dark and jazzy, salacious and circusy,  ravenously passionate pop. The classically trained sextet behind this  sound commands instruments such as glockenspiel, guitar, accordion,  keyboard, cymbals, violin, trumpet, and saxophone that burst into  musical richness inside your brain. Lead vocalist Jesse Krause\u2019s elastic  voice growls low and rough at times, but in the next second swoops  quivering up the scales. The poetic lyrics are a joy to read. \u201cNurse\u201d is  lewd, dark, and juicy, and contains one of the best moments on the  record \u2013 a rare moment free of instruments that\u2019s like suddenly being  alone in a room with Jekyll who transforms into grinning Hyde. Here,  Krause sounds lasciviously desperate and menacingly violent before  breaking into full-blown mania. This album is busy \u2013 a massive  understatement \u2013 and it\u2019s sometimes hard to tell where songs begin and  end. Listening to this will make you want to run out of your apartment  to dance in a fire with woodland animals, caring only about the  moment.That\u2019s the spirit of <em>Hans my Lion<\/em>, and he lives whenever you do. (Head in the Sand,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.headinthesand.ca\/\"> www.headinthesand.ca<\/a>) <strong>Adrienne Yeung<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong: There is a distinct lack of hose and medieval gallivanting on this album, but nevertheless, what Flying Fox and the Hunter Gatherers\u2019 first full-length album immediately brings to mind is a dark and obscure folk tale with origins somewhere in the 10th century. What does this sound like? Dark and jazzy, [&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":[358],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-flying-fox-and-the-hunter-gatherers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","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=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}