{"id":1727,"date":"2011-05-03T14:30:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T20:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2011-05-03T14:30:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T20:30:48","slug":"admiral-radley-i-heart-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2011\/05\/03\/admiral-radley-i-heart-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Admiral Radley &#8211; I Heart California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/admiral.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1730\" title=\"admiral\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/admiral.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAaron  Espinoza and Ariana Murray (of Earlimart) together with Jason Lytle and  Aaron Burtch (Grandaddy) have got together under the moniker Admiral  Radley. It\u2019s hard not to feel sunny when Admiral Radley proclaims their  love in phrases like \u201cI\u2019m citrus in summertime \/ You\u2019re haggis and  cider,\u201d on the title track, but it\u2019s just as hard not to feel the  awkwardness of the oddly placed, whispered \u2018yeah\u2019s. This is how it goes  for the rest of the album: What are decent guitar-driven pop\/rock songs  full of solid drums and clear piano are often gussied up with  unwarranted effects or too much care to be completely effective or even  memorable. The good points: \u201cSunburn Kids\u201d is a sunny, head-bopping  track; \u201cLonesome Co.\u201d and \u201cGhost of Syllables\u201d have good composition  backed with pleasant instruments passing by in the background; and  Murray\u2019s voice stands out on the very pretty \u201cThe Thread,\u201d which sounds  like the actual music that ballerina on your sister\u2019s music box dancer  dances to. It\u2019s gentle, paced, piano-based, and tells a story of two  young people thinking about growing old side by side. On the next few  tracks things speed up again \u2013 or at least they sound like they do,  until a minute in, when you realise things are going to stay at the same  emotional level for a while. There are great guitars and stirring bass,  but there\u2019s no musical revelation, no emotional current in the wires.  \u201cI\u2019m All Fucked on Beer\u201d is an obnoxious and fuzzy 4 minutes of  frat-house noise and gratuitous nasal vocals. <em>I Heart California<\/em> has  some great moments, but Admiral Radley makes it too easy to feel  \u00a0indifferent about the vast majority of the record. \u00a0(The Ship, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-ship.com\/\">www.the-ship.com<\/a>) <strong>Adrienne Yeung<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Espinoza and Ariana Murray (of Earlimart) together with Jason Lytle and Aaron Burtch (Grandaddy) have got together under the moniker Admiral Radley. It\u2019s hard not to feel sunny when Admiral Radley proclaims their love in phrases like \u201cI\u2019m citrus in summertime \/ You\u2019re haggis and cider,\u201d on the title track, but it\u2019s just as [&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":[44,295,399],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-amiral-radley","tag-earlimart","tag-grandaddy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","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=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}