{"id":6322,"date":"2013-02-12T18:32:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T18:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=6322"},"modified":"2013-02-12T18:32:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T18:32:52","slug":"black-walls-acedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/02\/12\/black-walls-acedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Walls &#8211; Acedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2013\/02\/12\/black-walls-acedia\/acedia\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6323\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6323\" alt=\"acedia\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/acedia-300x298.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>If Casper the Friendly Ghost was into wearing hardcore t-shirts and skateboarding through Toronto\u2019s endless suburbs, he\u2019d be a lot like Black Walls\u2019 Ken Reaume.<!--more--> Reaume, who is no stranger \u2013 he toured with the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TW8US6ICao4\" target=\"_blank\">Mount Eerie<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.owenpalletteternal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Final Fantasy<\/a> under his old handle VIVIV \u2013 takes cues from both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markkozelek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Kozelek<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/black-sabbaths-dark-twisted-resurrection-20130210\" target=\"_blank\">Black Sabbath<\/a>, weaving demons, religious iconography, regret, and one celebrity skateboarder (Brian Lotti) together with gentle vocals and skillful classical guitar compositions. The effect is a delicate, formless sound that ollies four dark horses and never touches back to earth. After a four year break from releasing music, Reaume submits <em>Acedia<\/em> as Black Walls\u2019 debut, and the music is an obvious result of patience. VIVIV, like Kozelek, always struck me as acoustic music for people who find alienation and naivety in most things folk leaning. There is a touch of Natural Snow Buildings here amid Black Walls\u2019 heavy lyrics, occasional field recordings, electronic glimmers, and tender song writing: a real glimpse into the beyond. Stare into the white vinyl at midnight and you might just see a ghost. (Pleasence, <a href=\"http:\/\/blackwalls.bandcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\">blackwalls.bandcamp.com<\/a>) <strong>Kristel Jax<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Casper the Friendly Ghost was into wearing hardcore t-shirts and skateboarding through Toronto\u2019s endless suburbs, he\u2019d be a lot like Black Walls\u2019 Ken Reaume.<\/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":[160,1045],"class_list":["post-6322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-canada","tag-ulteriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6322","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=6322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}