{"id":6279,"date":"2013-02-05T16:53:16","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T16:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=6279"},"modified":"2013-02-05T16:53:16","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T16:53:16","slug":"blunderspublik-barren-immensity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/02\/05\/blunderspublik-barren-immensity\/","title":{"rendered":"Blunderspublik – Barren Immensity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When David Simon\u2019s latest foray into television, Treme<\/em>, began airing on HBO, you can\u2019t fault people for assuming we\u2019d get The Wire Pt 2<\/em>. On the contrary, what Simon provided was not so much of a plot driven narrative, but a slow, reflective look at New Orleans and its people. In some ways, it was more of a painting than it was a television show. Blunderspublik\u2019s latest cassette Barren Immensity<\/em> follows a similar suit. Blunderspublik\u2019s Discogs.com page says that he writes \u201caudio pieces for distraction.\u201d Barren Immensity<\/em> couldn\u2019t be further from the truth. Rather than distract, they serve to affect your environment \u2013 not to be listened to on its own per se, but to be used to experience life as you listen. Some tracks move faster than others \u2013 \u201cElastic Modulus\u201d is one such example \u2013 but many tracks rely on slower, or at least, more minimal presentations. \u201cVast Undulating Black\u201d is more or less exactly what one would imagine the sound of vast undulating black to be. \u201cBorn to be My Unicorn\u201d is as close to pop as this album comes, as it includes vocal and background percussion, but despite a somewhat conventional structure still retains a dreamy quality. This is not revolutionary ambient or electronic music, but it serves to affect your atmosphere appropriately.
\nIt\u2019s been said that this album is \u201cperfect for walking at night\u201d but also \u201cideal for winter hibernation.\u201d These two acts are contradictory, but it makes sense when we consider both Treme<\/em> and Winnipeg. Generally, Winnipeg is a place where it is ideal for winter hibernation on the best of days, and yet there is something alluring about it, something that is maybe only discovered by walking the streets of this city. It\u2019s that sort of understanding about New Orleans that David Simon has, and it\u2019s the sort of understanding that Blunderspublik has about Winnipeg on Barren Immensity<\/em>. \u00a0(Dub Ditch Picnic, notype.com\/drones\/catalogue.e\/panospria\/<\/a>) Devin King<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When David Simon\u2019s latest foray into television, Treme, began airing on HBO, you can\u2019t fault people for assuming we\u2019d get The Wire Pt 2. On the contrary, what Simon provided was not so much of a plot driven narrative, but a slow, reflective look at New Orleans and its people. In some ways, it was […]<\/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":[119,170,283,563],"class_list":["post-6279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-blunderspublik","tag-casette","tag-dub-ditch","tag-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279","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=6279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}