{"id":429,"date":"2010-02-04T08:58:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T14:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=429"},"modified":"2010-02-04T08:58:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T14:58:14","slug":"review-the-expos-blackwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/02\/04\/review-the-expos-blackwater\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Expos &#8211; Blackwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THE EXPOS<br \/>\n<em>Blackwater<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-430\" title=\"Expos\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Expos.jpg\" alt=\"Expos\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/>On their second album, Newmarket, Ontario\u2019s the Expos move beyond the limiting genre of ska and slide into a comfortable reggae sound with elements of soul and pop. It\u2019s obvious that the band has made an effort to broaden their musical style, and <em>Blackwater<\/em> shows that the Expos will be around for a long time. <em>Blackwater<\/em> is more soulful than most ska albums, not concerned with partying as much as the human condition, as heard in \u201cDying Too Long.\u201d It isn\u2019t littered with the punk rock sound which has become associated with the genre, but instead relies on the harmony and instrumentation of the band. Horns and Hammond organs appear throughout the album, complimented by strong bass playing and Reed Neagle\u2019s laid-back vocals. My pick for best song on the album has to be the closer \u201cBring It Home,\u201d in which the second half of the six-minute track is an amazing jam session that will leave the listener satisfied. Fans of Subcity should definitely listen to this album. Highly recommended. (Stomp Records, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stomprecords.com\">www.stomprecords.com<\/a>) <strong>Charles Lefebvre<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE EXPOS Blackwater On their second album, Newmarket, Ontario\u2019s the Expos move beyond the limiting genre of ska and slide into a comfortable reggae sound with elements of soul and pop. It\u2019s obvious that the band has made an effort to broaden their musical style, and Blackwater shows that the Expos will be around for [&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":[963],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-the-expos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","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=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}