{"id":4384,"date":"2012-06-12T09:52:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=4384"},"modified":"2012-06-12T09:52:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:52:45","slug":"yann-tiersen-skyline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2012\/06\/12\/yann-tiersen-skyline\/","title":{"rendered":"YANN TIERSEN &#8211; Skyline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4385\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2012\/06\/12\/yann-tiersen-skyline\/a85a5403e0\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4385\" title=\"Yann\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/a85a5403e0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span id=\"internal-source-marker_0.5899770075920969\"><br \/>\nIf you ever come to the situation where the world is ending and you have to take a resolute leap off a cliff, the first track off <em>Skyline<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EoirWqKfZFg\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cAnother Shore,\u201d<\/a> is the soundtrack for it.<!--more--> Tiersen\u2019s seventh studio album sounds happier than \u00a02010\u2019s <em>Dust Lane<\/em>, but if you only know Tiersen\u2019s work from <em>Amelie<\/em>, this is a world apart. No folksy melodies here: the only similarity is the building melody and super rich sound, built by tons of instruments such as vibraphones, guitars, synths, glockenspiels, mandolins, accordions, and violins. The tracks shimmer with electric guitar and five out of the nine tracks feature vocals (which includes barking and swearing on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LgBnP2Zi5Zg\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Gutter\u201d<\/a>). \u00a0Often, dissonant collections of sounds (toy piano tinkling, rough yelling, synths) each start doing their own thing, then suddenly realise how they fit together &#8211; the result is coherent frantic energy, choreographed by strong, catchy melodies. These are beautiful, unpretentious songs, and their complexity isn\u2019t paired with aloof experimentalism. Quieter tracks such as \u201cForgive Me\u201d and \u201cThe Trial\u201d are soft but still lively. The chorus on the latter is heartbreaking, rushing along like inevitable waves in an evening ocean. Oh gosh, I\u2019m breaking out the similes. Just give this a listen, and a thousand beautiful things will come to mind. (ANTI-, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anti.com\/\">www.anti.com<\/a>) <strong>Adrienne Yeung<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you ever come to the situation where the world is ending and you have to take a resolute leap off a cliff, the first track off Skyline, \u201cAnother Shore,\u201d is the soundtrack for it.<\/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":[647,1128],"class_list":["post-4384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-mute","tag-yann-tiersen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384","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=4384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}