{"id":1757,"date":"2011-05-10T15:04:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T21:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2011-05-10T15:04:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T21:04:38","slug":"obits-moody-standard-and-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2011\/05\/10\/obits-moody-standard-and-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Obits – Moody, Standard, and Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe second Obits CD has absolutely killer packaging done up in the colours of bottled acrylic paint, with the sleekness of thick, pristine graphic novels. I don\u2019t think anything could more predictive of how the music sounds. Guitars and drums lash out a web of dense and muscular garage rock that takes you cleanly and boldly out of your head. The members aren\u2019t new to the music scene: there\u2019s Rick Froberg of Hot Snakes and Pitchfork, guitarist Sohrab Habibion of Edsel, bassist Greg Simpson, and drummer Scott Gursky of Shortstack. All songs are timed to get just the right amount of suspense and perfect finish, as on \u201cStandards,\u201d which slows down like a marathon runner majestically breaking through the ribbon. \u00a0Obits know they\u2019re good, and they\u2019re not afraid to proclaim it in the thickest musical equivalent of black Sharpie they can find. \u201cNaked to the World\u201d is purely joyful yawling. Froberg\u2019s vocals \u201cI Want Results\u201d has a great, rolling, rumbling bassline, and hell, I don\u2019t even know what kind of results I want after listening to this, but I sure know I want them. \u201cShift Operator\u201d is slow and sparse compared to the other tracks (but by no means would you call this \u2018slow\u2019 out of context), which doesn\u2019t work too well with the record as a whole. \u201cNew August\u201d has a turgid undercurrent of wickedness, a touch of devious guitar riffing darkness. This is an exciting listen that\u2019ll get you pumped up and ready for a comic-book-worthy adventure. (Sub Pop, www.subpop.com<\/a>) Adrienne Yeung<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The second Obits CD has absolutely killer packaging done up in the colours of bottled acrylic paint, with the sleekness of thick, pristine graphic novels. I don\u2019t think anything could more predictive of how the music sounds. Guitars and drums lash out a web of dense and muscular garage rock that takes you cleanly and […]<\/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":[439,687],"class_list":["post-1757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-hot-snakes","tag-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757","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=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}