{"id":2132,"date":"2011-07-20T12:52:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T18:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2011-07-20T12:52:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T18:52:26","slug":"tearist-living-2009-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2011\/07\/20\/tearist-living-2009-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Tearist – Living: 2009 – Present"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI took my friend Kram Ran to see Tearist play live in New York while we were visiting\u2014a performance which has become to the two of us a base to which all other events and experiences are now compared \u201cThis isn\u2019t as good as seeing Tearist live.\u201d \u201cThis show would be better if Tearist was playing.\u201d \u201cI wish Tearist was here\u201d (in line at the grocery store).
\nIf you don\u2019t know who Tearist are, it might be because you\u2019re not following the internet\u2019s international underground dark music scene, or you never got into Former Ghosts. All you need to know is that Tearist is Yasmine Kittles and William Strangeland of L.A., they\u2019re influenced by Artaud\u2019s Theatre of Cruelty (and somehow get it right), and no one knows when they\u2019ll make it up to Canada. Living: 2009 – Present<\/em> is their first official live release.
\nWhen you put this record on, Kittles isn\u2019t going to be inches from your face, all limbs and teeth, menacing a metal pipe one second and then beating herself against a wall on the other side of the room while cameras flash the next. You can, however, put this on and hear her yelping and swaggering in your living room over Strangeland\u2019s Suicide beats and gut-aggressive synth lines.
\nKittles can belt it out so hard and so good it paralyzes you and still flail wilder than Freddy Ruppert did in This Song is a Mess but So am I, but my main attraction to Tearist goes beyond their next level live show. I\u2019m obsessed by their relentless integrity and commitment to making good art. Get Living<\/em> if you want to hear a talented, real band get down (or if you collect hand letter-pressed LP jackets). Otherwise, just download some syrupy Austra mp3s and go to the beach. (Thin Wrist Recordings, www.thinwrist.com<\/a>) Kristel Jax<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I took my friend Kram Ran to see Tearist play live in New York while we were visiting\u2014a performance which has become to the two of us a base to which all other events and experiences are now compared \u201cThis isn\u2019t as good as seeing Tearist live.\u201d \u201cThis show would be better if Tearist was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[941],"class_list":["post-2132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-tearist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132","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=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}