{"id":2152,"date":"2011-07-26T14:16:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T20:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2011-07-26T14:16:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T20:16:19","slug":"steve-basham-thick-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2011\/07\/26\/steve-basham-thick-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Basham &#8211; Thick Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basham\u2019s  latest is dripping with Mortfell Oktorium\u2019s goofy-yet-relatable  character of humour and DIY production, in the form of some seriously  up-tempo numbers. Seriously, no one can deliver a punch line like that  of \u201cBad Mood:\u201d A mermaid pops out of the river and makes a come-hither  motion. \u201cI wasn\u2019t really in the mood \/ But I didn\u2019t want to be rude! \/  She was quite the dish \/ And I wanna return that fish!\u201d This is his  third solo album as a follow up to <em>Thick<\/em> and <em>Thicker<\/em>,  and he recently, to really prove that he\u2019s serious, started playing  with The Upsides and they\u2019ve donned themselves The Girth. Unfortunately,  length is seriously lacking here (none of these tracks break the  2-minute mark) but that\u2019s not a problem as they certainly are thick with  lightning-quick quips and proto-punk energy. \u201cSeriously Not Serious\u201d is  the album\u2019s \u201cMarquee Moon\u201d as the most serious number (or is it?!) with  Basham analyzing his own talents and it ends with a palatable guitar  duet in under a minute and forty seconds. (Independent, <a href=\"http:\/\/www. soundcloud.com\/stevebasham\" target=\"_blank\">www.  soundcloud.com\/stevebasham<\/a>) <strong>Taylor Burgess<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basham\u2019s latest is dripping with Mortfell Oktorium\u2019s goofy-yet-relatable character of humour and DIY production, in the form of some seriously up-tempo numbers. Seriously, no one can deliver a punch line like that of \u201cBad Mood:\u201d A mermaid pops out of the river and makes a come-hither motion. \u201cI wasn\u2019t really in the mood \/ But [&hellip;]<\/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":[563,910],"class_list":["post-2152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-local","tag-steve-basham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152","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=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}