{"id":5131,"date":"2012-09-11T09:42:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T15:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=5131"},"modified":"2012-09-11T09:42:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T15:42:37","slug":"mother-mother-sticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2012\/09\/11\/mother-mother-sticks\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Mother \u2013 The Sticks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span id=\"internal-source-marker_0.9166437566746026\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5132\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2012\/09\/11\/mother-mother-%e2%80%93-sticks\/cd_spread_final\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5132\" title=\"mother mother sticks\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/9076b25c41a58233fd3d64b6366d.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More introspective, the subject matter on<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/exclaim.ca\/MusicVideo\/ClickHear\/mother_mother-sticks_album_stream?&amp;utm_source=TwitterEDC&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=EDCTwitter\" target=\"_blank\">The Sticks<\/a><\/em> matches the sounds, with tracks that alternately dwell on aggressive (\u201cCry Forum\u201d), menacing (\u201cThe Sticks\u201d), anxious (\u201cLittle Pistol,\u201d \u201cDread in my Heart\u201d), and emptiness (\u201cHappy\u201d).<!--more--> For those who still crave the odd harmonies and vocal jumps, tracks like \u201cInfinitetessimal\u201d \u00a0and \u201cBusiness Man\u201d fit into the album\u2019s sound while still retaining some of that style. \u201cLet\u2019s Fall in Love\u201d utilizes the more uptempo rock song the band perfected on <em>O My Heart<\/em> but lacks some of the creative innovation we\u2019ve seen from the band in the past, which leaves this track as something more appealing for rock radio listeners. The album is bookended by a similar piano track and the voice of a young boy. \u201cOmen\u201d seems to suggest an escape into death, and conclusion \u201cTo the Wild,\u201d finds the narrator finding something new in the wild, escaping what has come in the preceding tracks, often destroying it. In some way <em>Sticks<\/em> seems like an attempt to escape the preconceived notions of the band. This is the sound of a band trying to forge a new path for themselves. The biggest flaw is that there is too much reliance on tried and true mainstream rock sounds, as on \u201cLatter Days,\u201d when we know that the band can be more creative sonically. It\u2019s a consistent, cohesive album that tries to balance the quirky nature of the band with their more mainstream ambitions. (Last Gang Records, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lastgangentertainment.com\/\">lastgangentertainment.com<\/a>) <strong>Devin King<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More introspective, the subject matter on The Sticks matches the sounds, with tracks that alternately dwell on aggressive (\u201cCry Forum\u201d), menacing (\u201cThe Sticks\u201d), anxious (\u201cLittle Pistol,\u201d \u201cDread in my Heart\u201d), and emptiness (\u201cHappy\u201d).<\/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":[453,637,1056],"class_list":["post-5131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-indie","tag-mother-mother","tag-utn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131","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=5131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}