{"id":1765,"date":"2011-05-17T14:23:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T20:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2011-05-17T14:23:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T20:23:19","slug":"sic-alps-napa-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2011\/05\/17\/sic-alps-napa-asylum\/","title":{"rendered":"Sic Alps &#8211; Napa Asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sicalpsart1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1770\" title=\"sicalpsart1\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sicalpsart1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFinally, new Sic Alps! It\u2019s been a few years since the fantastic <em>US E.Z.<\/em> came out. Waiting sucked a big one, but the band\u2019s delivered with a  discfull of brand new, sun-kissed, reverb-hissed, noise-damaged poppy  psychy rock. I had fun trying to sing along to fast-favourites without  consulting the lyrics sheet. \u201cEat Happy\u201d chugs along, hugs along to one  chord of an eventual three-chord kicker that hooks you in then&#8230; just  stops. Bastards! (I was singing along \u201cBeep beep beep&#8230;\u201d to what was  actually \u201cEat eat eat&#8230; eat happy.\u201d) Then you\u2019ve got songs like \u201cTrip  Train\u201d and the wonderfully titled \u201cWasted At Church\u201d that build on a  fuzzed-out loop and noisy blasts of distortion that look back on the  sound of their early tapes. About half of the songs on this disc don\u2019t  break the \u201cperfect pop song\u201d length (2:42, duh). \u00a0\u201cBall of Fame\u201d and  \u201cSaint Peter Writes His Book\u201d combined don\u2019t even come close, but throw  enough earworms out that anyone listening will hit &lt;back&gt; as the  last note decays out the speakercone. And what about the gauzy,  Archies-jangle of \u201cCement Surfboards?\u201d Or the twilight blues of \u201cNathan  Livingston Maddox?\u201d Or maybe the fury of the MC5-like garage stomper  \u201cThe First White Man To Touch California Soil?\u201d There\u2019s so much awesome  packed into this package that it\u2019s impossible to pick a \u201cbest.\u201d So,  person of discerning musical taste; remember when you digested GBV\u2019s <em>Alien Lanes<\/em>? The noise, the variety, the hooks, the \u201cHey, I wanna try that!\u201d feeling? Well here, feel it again. You\u2019re welcome. (Drag City,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragcity.com\/\"> www.dragcity.com<\/a>) <strong>Patrick Michalishyn<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, new Sic Alps! It\u2019s been a few years since the fantastic US E.Z. came out. Waiting sucked a big one, but the band\u2019s delivered with a discfull of brand new, sun-kissed, reverb-hissed, noise-damaged poppy psychy rock. I had fun trying to sing along to fast-favourites without consulting the lyrics sheet. \u201cEat Happy\u201d chugs along, [&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":[858],"class_list":["post-1765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-sic-alps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765","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=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}