{"id":3503,"date":"2012-01-03T11:10:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T17:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2012-01-03T11:10:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T17:10:36","slug":"blitzen-trapper-american-goldwing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2012\/01\/03\/blitzen-trapper-american-goldwing\/","title":{"rendered":"Blitzen Trapper \u2013 American Goldwing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3504\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2012\/01\/03\/blitzen-trapper-%e2%80%93-american-goldwing\/attachment\/098787094923\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3504\" title=\"098787094923\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/098787094923-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span id=\"internal-source-marker_0.8759672597516328\">Blitzen Trapper\u2019s latest album \u2013 their third for indie-giant Sub Pop \u2013 <em>American Golding<\/em> is an enjoyable affair. <!--more-->With a real West Coast retro vibe throughout, these beardos have certainly created an album full of tunes that wouldn\u2019t sound out of place when thrown into a playlist between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nP0VBB7BO64\" target=\"_blank\">CSNY<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L3eZy_KOgbQ\" target=\"_blank\">Sheepdogs.<\/a> A couple of the tunes stand-out after repeated listening, like the cautionary booze cruiser <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7zHkWdXjIrw\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cFletcher\u201d<\/a> and the cheeky <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-Go8yeUSV4g\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cLove the Way You Walk Away.\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nOverall, the album plays well straight through. I cranked\u2019er cruising Highway 1 between Winnipeg and Brandon a couple times and, for the most part, it made for good driving music. However, the album does lag a bit through the middle, providing either the perfect place to pull over and piss, or hit the skip button on the changer.<br \/>\nAnother thing that sticks with me, though, is that the album is almost too conscious of its retro-rocker-roots. Many of the tunes, and lyrics, sound as though you\u2019ve already heard them before when you\u2019ve been half-assed listening to the AM dial \u2013 which isn\u2019t necessarily a bad thing, it\u2019s just not exceptional. Not a bad album to play while cruising by any means, but maybe not a whole lot more. (Sub Pop, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blitzentrapper.net\" target=\"_blank\">www.blitzentrapper.net<\/a>) <strong>Sheldon Birnie<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blitzen Trapper\u2019s latest album \u2013 their third for indie-giant Sub Pop \u2013 American Golding is an enjoyable affair.<\/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":[806,915,1092],"class_list":["post-3503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-rock","tag-sub-pop","tag-west-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503","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=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}