{"id":2574,"date":"2011-10-11T09:08:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T15:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2011-10-11T09:08:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T15:08:22","slug":"camp-radio-campista-socialista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2011\/10\/11\/camp-radio-campista-socialista\/","title":{"rendered":"Camp Radio &#8211; Campista Socialista"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2575\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2011\/10\/11\/camp-radio-campista-socialista\/camp_radio\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2575\" title=\"camp_radio\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/camp_radio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Once a while there comes a band that never puts enough songs on an album, and takes too long in between them. Camp Radio is one of these bands. Their debut came out back in \u201908, ten tight, power pop, sing-alongable songs that hooked in and sounded better louder. Three years \u2013 THREE YEARS! \u2013 later, one song per year, Camp Radio have finally come around with a killer album #2. <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/killbeatmusic\/camp-radio-the-girl-who-stole\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Girl Who Stole My Motorbike\u201d<\/a> sets the table with what you can expect over the course of half an hour: big guitars, vocal harmonies, nice \u2019n\u2019 thick bass riffs, hooks hooks hooks, and Scott Terry\u2019s big, beardy drum-fills. \u201cI Have Designs\u201d kicks into a steady chug, an \u201cearly \u201990s\u201d punk-rock anthem that would stand out on a Lookout! comp. It\u2019s not all go-go-go, as proven with <a href=\"http:\/\/campradio.bandcamp.com\/track\/ive-got-you-up-my-sleeves\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cI\u2019ve Got You Up My Sleeves,\u201d<\/a> which takes it into sweetheart territory. Don\u2019t take that as weakling rock; these guys can steep it in sweet without the eyerolling-sickeningness of a pop-ballad. That\u2019s skill. \u201cSlack,\u201d \u201cCosmic Fair,\u201d \u201cReinventing The Laugh Track\u201d&#8230; really, there\u2019s not a lame song in the pack. The album wraps up with the flexi-disc single <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/killbeatmusic\/camp-radio-turn-up-the-radio\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cTurn Up The Radio,\u201d<\/a> marrying the geek-in-the-corner crushiness of a Weezer song with the loud-quiet-loud dynamic of the Pixies in what happens to be one of the best album-closers in recent memory.<br \/>\nWhy Camp Radio aren\u2019t spoken in the same breath as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sloan_(band)\" target=\"_blank\">Sloan<\/a> when it comes to great Canadian rock bands, I don\u2019t know. What I do know is that I\u2019m gonna try and change it. Hopefully I don\u2019t have to wait another three years for more proof. Or maybe I\u2019m just greedy. (Kelp, <a href=\"http:\/\/kelprecords.com\" target=\"_blank\">kelprecords.com<\/a>)<br \/>\n<strong>Patrick Michalishyn for Stylus Magazine<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once a while there comes a band that never puts enough songs on an album, and takes too long in between them. Camp Radio is one of these bands. Their debut came out back in \u201908, ten tight, power pop, sing-alongable songs that hooked in and sounded better louder. Three years \u2013 THREE YEARS! \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[158,161,752,874],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-camp-radio","tag-canadian","tag-pop-rock","tag-sloan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}