{"id":2696,"date":"2011-10-18T10:08:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T16:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2011-10-18T10:08:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T16:08:57","slug":"alpha-couple-whnz27njnyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2011\/10\/18\/alpha-couple-whnz27njnyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha Couple – WHNZ:27:NJNYC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After their departure from Winnipeg, Alpha Couple<\/a> conceived this album on the road. Driving\/touring\/vacationing\/living\/playing somewhat directionless, Jax and Wohlgemuth eventually ended up in Toronto, where they have both called home together before\u2014when they created their Alpha Couple concept. Coincidentally, I didn\u2019t listen to this album until I was on a road trip myself, entering the California border around witching hour. Gone are Stalingrad<\/em>\u2019s pop sensibilities, and (through oddly emphatic associations) it seems like there is no destination to these songs either\u2014samples and vocals drift or wave or fly by, anchored around some loop, acoustic guitar, or piano riff. And in the exchange, AC have honed in on the haunting beauty that has been the driving force behind them all along. Most powerful is the behemoth-length album opener \u201cA Walk Through Central Park\u201d at nearly 15 minutes. Consisting of reverbed vocals, only three acoustic chords (if that), and samples from the radio and answering machines, the song is a testament to their self-prescribed label \u201ctweenoise.\u201d Two songs of reconstructed Stalingrad <\/em>tracks marks Wohlgemuth and Jax (who, for full disclosure, is a Stylus<\/em> writer) heading headfirst into noise\/ambient territory. All in all, this is an eerier, darker release than their full-length\u2014and up for grabs through the Free Music Archive. Worth the download for anyone wanting to get out of their comfort zone and experience some freshly charted areas of music. (We Have No Zen, wehavenozen.blogspot.com<\/a>) Taylor Burgess<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After their departure from Winnipeg, Alpha Couple conceived this album on the road. Driving\/touring\/vacationing\/living\/playing somewhat directionless, Jax and Wohlgemuth eventually ended up in Toronto, where they have both called home together before\u2014when they created their Alpha Couple concept. Coincidentally, I didn\u2019t listen to this album until I was on a road trip myself, entering the […]<\/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":[39,563,673],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-alpha-couple","tag-local","tag-noise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696","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=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}