{"id":424,"date":"2010-02-04T09:56:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T15:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=424"},"modified":"2010-02-04T09:56:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T15:56:21","slug":"review-dead-mans-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/02\/04\/review-dead-mans-bones\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Dead Man&#8217;s Bones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEAD MAN\u2019S BONES<br \/>\n<em>Dead Man\u2019s Bones<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-426\" title=\"deadmanbones452\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/deadmanbones452.jpg\" alt=\"deadmanbones452\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/>Released right around Halloweentime, Dead Man\u2019s Bones could be considered gimmicky if it wasn\u2019t so unexpectedly good. Celebrity heartthrob Ryan Gosling and filmmaker Zach Shields manage to combine all the right elements of vintage spooky sounds, raw indie cabaret tunes and the charm of an elementary school play. Featuring the Silverlake Conservatory of Music children\u2019s choir, Gosling and Shields guide the kids through songs about ghosts, werewolves and losing one\u2019s soul. The album often fringes on creepy macabre material with standout tracks like \u201cMy Body\u2019s a Zombie for You.\u201d While it might be easily dismissed as a quirky for the sake of being quirky it often strikes the right balance of creative atmosphere and rawness that is lacking in most, if not all, actor-turned-musician celebrity projects. (Yes, I\u2019m talking to you, ScarJo.) Whether it\u2019s the rumblings of out-of-tune children or actors not being able to play their instruments, this project has managed to summon the perfect balance of morbid allure and resourceful conception. (Anti, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadmansbones.net\">www.deadmansbones.net<\/a>) <strong>Kent Davies<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEAD MAN\u2019S BONES Dead Man\u2019s Bones Released right around Halloweentime, Dead Man\u2019s Bones could be considered gimmicky if it wasn\u2019t so unexpectedly good. Celebrity heartthrob Ryan Gosling and filmmaker Zach Shields manage to combine all the right elements of vintage spooky sounds, raw indie cabaret tunes and the charm of an elementary school play. Featuring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[244,454],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-dead-mans-bones","tag-indie-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}