{"id":4030,"date":"2012-04-17T10:01:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T16:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=4030"},"modified":"2012-04-17T10:01:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T16:01:31","slug":"eamon-mcgrath-young-canadians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2012\/04\/17\/eamon-mcgrath-young-canadians\/","title":{"rendered":"Eamon McGrath &#8211; Young Canadians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4031\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2012\/04\/17\/eamon-mcgrath-young-canadians\/eamon3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4031\" title=\"eamon3\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/eamon3-299x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span id=\"internal-source-marker_0.906061704037711\"><br \/>\nComing on slow and soft to start, Eamon McGrath\u2019s new disc <em>Young Canadians<\/em> is all over the map musically.<!--more--> And this is a good thing. From soft, acoustic numbers to balls-out distorted rockers, McGrath displays versatility and depth in his songwriting. Tackling a country as vast as Canada, and trying to capture the spirit of youth that stretches from sea to sea to sea, McGrath\u2019s vision on <em>Young Canadians<\/em> is bold. Sometimes this doesn\u2019t work for me, in the case of Side B\u2019s opener \u201cGreat Lakes,\u201d but overall the effect is a well played. Tracks like \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/whenyoumotoraway.blogspot.ca\/2012\/04\/new-folkpunk-discovery-eamon-mcgraths.html\">Instrument of My Release<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7C_47PNjNRM\" target=\"_blank\">Rabid Dog<\/a>\u201d are rocking, while tunes like \u201cJohnny Brought the Bottles Back\u201d and \u201cSaskatoon, SK\u201d hit home in all the right places. While this likely won\u2019t make my Top 10 list of 2012, I\u2019m real glad I changed across <em>Young Canadians<\/em>. Definitely worth repeat listening. (White Whale Records, <a href=\"http:\/\/whitewhale.ca\" target=\"_blank\">whitewhale.ca<\/a>) <strong>Sheldon Birnie<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming on slow and soft to start, Eamon McGrath\u2019s new disc Young Canadians is all over the map musically.<\/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":[161,360,453,766],"class_list":["post-4030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-canadian","tag-folk","tag-indie","tag-punk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030","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=4030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}