{"id":4321,"date":"2012-06-05T09:20:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T15:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=4321"},"modified":"2012-06-05T09:20:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T15:20:57","slug":"yellow-ostrich-strange-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2012\/06\/05\/yellow-ostrich-strange-lands\/","title":{"rendered":"YELLOW OSTRICH &#8211; Strange Lands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span id=\"internal-source-marker_0.20212777447886765\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4322\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2012\/06\/05\/yellow-ostrich-strange-lands\/strange-land-yellow-ostrich\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4322\" title=\"Strange-Land-Yellow-Ostrich\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Strange-Land-Yellow-Ostrich.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I like this album, probably a little bit more than I should.<!--more--> In my opinion, Yellow Ostrich is not reinventing the wheel, or charting unknown musical territory. What they are doing is indie pop rock, and they are doing it very, very well. <em>Strange Lands<\/em> is consistent throughout and never diverges very far from the quirky groove it carves out for itself. The opening song is so promising. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7jHmvxt9XxA\" target=\"_blank\">Elephant King<\/a>\u201d uses catchy seemingly nonsensical lyrics, quick rhythms, along with a couple horns thrown in on the side to create a fun and contagious sound. The horns, simple lyrics and quick pace continue throughout the album, and even at slow points it doesn\u2019t stay so slow for very long. Lead singer Alex Schaaf\u2019s voice is shrill at points, and certain in its uncertainty. His songwriting seems to follow suit, as in the second song off the album, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mkScjUgWNnQ\">Daughter<\/a>\u201d: \u201cI am a marathon runner \/ And my legs are sore \/ I am anxious to see \/ What I am running for.\u201d This is the stuff lil\u2019 hipster babies are fed off of. (Barsuk, <a href=\"http:\/\/barsuk.com\">barsuk.com<\/a>) <strong>Victoria King<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like this album, probably a little bit more than I should.<\/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":[453,797],"class_list":["post-4321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-indie","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321","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=4321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}