{"id":3130,"date":"2011-11-15T10:31:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T16:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=3130"},"modified":"2011-11-15T10:31:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T16:31:04","slug":"smoky-tiger-greathitz2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2011\/11\/15\/smoky-tiger-greathitz2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoky Tiger &#8211; Greathitz2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3131\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2011\/11\/15\/smoky-tiger-greathitz2011\/smoke\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3131\" title=\"smoke\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/smoke-299x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\nSmoky Tiger handed this disc to me, noting that, Burton bless him, he\u2019s released seven fucking albums this year. If you missed our interview with him, he\u2019s one unique spirit, engaged in celebrating local folklore and unkempt positivity, and this disc captures his self-selected best moments from the first three quarters of the year. <em>Greathitz2011<\/em> ranges from the Egyptian groove of <a href=\"http:\/\/radio3.cbc.ca\/#\/bands\/Smoky-Tiger\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cTitania\u201d<\/a> to the disco funk of \u201cSmokestackLightning\u201d to the lazy-slow folk of \u201cSlopoke\u201d to the weirdo bossa nova of every other track. The Tiger tackles much\u2014chasing a faerie for her love, witnessing someone walk on water, and someone so happy, she hands out rainbows. Every track is so radically different that it prompted a mental \u201cWTF\u201d from me with each new track, followed by a prompt \u201cFTW\u201d and me cranking it up, bobbing my head, shimmying or groaning along, or whatever action appropriate. So, to hell with what you know and what you think is right, the Smoky Tiger\u2019s music is waiting, pretty much a whole universe unto itself. And how better to make the interstellar leap and get acquainted than this disc? (Independent, myspace.com\/thesmokytiger) <strong>Taylor Burgess<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smoky Tiger handed this disc to me, noting that, Burton bless him, he\u2019s released seven fucking albums this year. If you missed our interview with him, he\u2019s one unique spirit, engaged in celebrating local folklore and unkempt positivity, and this disc captures his self-selected best moments from the first three quarters of the year. Greathitz2011 [&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":[563,806],"class_list":["post-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-local","tag-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130","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=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}