{"id":5223,"date":"2012-09-18T10:28:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T16:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=5223"},"modified":"2012-09-18T10:28:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T16:28:37","slug":"steve-gates-a-bee-in-her-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2012\/09\/18\/steve-gates-a-bee-in-her-mouth\/","title":{"rendered":"STEVE GATES &#8211; A Bee In Her Mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5224\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2012\/09\/18\/steve-gates-a-bee-in-her-mouth\/a-bee-in-her-mouth\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5224\" title=\"A Bee In Her Mouth\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Bee-In-Her-Mouth-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span id=\"internal-source-marker_0.8371964243706316\"><br \/>\nIn my humble opinion, cooler weather requires some cooler music. The beauty of red and orange leaves, the chilly wind, and the dropping temperature all serve as an appropriate background for music that is equally more mellow and modest. Steve Gates\u2019 <em>A Bee In Her Mouth<\/em> is exactly one of those slower-tempo albums, well suited for approaching October and November. <!--more-->There\u2019s something so honest about this album &#8211; whether it\u2019s Gates\u2019 vocals, lyrics, guitar, or some magical combination of the three, this album is striking in how genuine all of its parts work together in producing music so true and homey. Like a warm sweater, this album wraps you up in gentle acoustics. Steve\u2019s voice is soothing and strong, especially proven on opening track <a href=\"http:\/\/ridethetempo.com\/2012\/04\/23\/listendownload-steve-gates-proud-convey\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cProud Conveys It,\u201d <\/a>as it swells from simple acoustic finger-picking to a full band crescendo with accompanying vocals. Most of the songs on this album are small narratives, telling stories of a land full of lost balloons, a little girl\u2019s wishes, and a hilarious romp about hypocritical politicians and exclusivity in heaven. This album was one of those gems that just sort of fell into my lap while in the<\/span><span id=\"internal-source-marker_0.8371964243706316\">CKUW studio. Romantic at times, wistful at others, unrepentant almost always, <em>A Bee In Her Mouth<\/em> is one of the better acoustic releases I\u2019ve heard in the past while. (Independent, <a href=\"http:\/\/stevegates.ca\/\">stevegates.ca<\/a>) <strong>Victoria King<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my humble opinion, cooler weather requires some cooler music. The beauty of red and orange leaves, the chilly wind, and the dropping temperature all serve as an appropriate background for music that is equally more mellow and modest. Steve Gates\u2019 A Bee In Her Mouth is exactly one of those slower-tempo albums, well suited [&hellip;]<\/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":[24,360,563],"class_list":["post-5223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-acoustic","tag-folk","tag-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223","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=5223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}