{"id":4706,"date":"2012-07-17T09:45:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T15:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=4706"},"modified":"2012-07-17T09:45:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T15:45:43","slug":"milk-and-rectangles-milk-and-rectangles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2012\/07\/17\/milk-and-rectangles-milk-and-rectangles\/","title":{"rendered":"MILK AND RECTANGLES &#8211; Milk and Rectangles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span id=\"internal-source-marker_0.8682972509413958\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4707\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2012\/07\/17\/milk-and-rectangles-milk-and-rectangles\/205291_10150933278924176_1973711121_n-300x300\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4707\" title=\"205291_10150933278924176_1973711121_n-300x300\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/205291_10150933278924176_1973711121_n-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Milk and Rectangles\u2019 self-titled debut full length follows three EPs of \u201cindie-rock, art-pop and garage.\u201d The Halifax based four piece relies on eighth-note strumming rhythms guitars on top of simple-as-GarageBand-loops drums to support vocals that wander in and out of 60s influenced pop melodies. <!--more-->The style is consistent, with the exception of some dance-heavy tracks (\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R0mGgNAywJY\" target=\"_blank\">Heart\u2019s the Target<\/a>\u201d) and some guitar\/vocal only pieces (\u201cNobody\u2019s Fool\u201d). All of the tracks on this album are in the same vein, but only a few click, and the roughly produced effort as a whole tends to be vocal and guitar hooks that don\u2019t quite catch on top of a mid-tempo monotonous rhythm section.<br \/>\nThe tracks that do work show the potential for what Milk and Rectangles are going for, notably the final track, \u201cA Loaded Question\u201d \u2013 a short pop-rock piece with a catchy chorus, nicely complementing guitar riffs, and drums that are consistent yet interesting. Other songs where the formula comes together properly are \u201cDon\u2019t Fall Into the Wrong Hands\u201d and the opener, \u201cHospital Patience.\u201d Otherwise, the album just sort of happens. (Independent, <a href=\"http:\/\/milkandrectangles.bandcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\">milkandrectangles.bandcamp.com<\/a>) <strong>Darcy Penner<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milk and Rectangles\u2019 self-titled debut full length follows three EPs of \u201cindie-rock, art-pop and garage.\u201d The Halifax based four piece relies on eighth-note strumming rhythms guitars on top of simple-as-GarageBand-loops drums to support vocals that wander in and out of 60s influenced pop melodies.<\/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":[416,453,747],"class_list":["post-4706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-halifax","tag-indie","tag-pop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706","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=4706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}