{"id":6646,"date":"2013-04-03T17:03:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T17:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=6646"},"modified":"2013-04-03T17:03:04","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T17:03:04","slug":"john-cale-shifty-adventures-in-nookie-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/04\/03\/john-cale-shifty-adventures-in-nookie-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cale &#8211; Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2013\/04\/03\/john-cale-shifty-adventures-in-nookie-wood\/johncaleshiftyadventuresinnookiewood600pr260912\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6647\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6647\" alt=\"JohnCaleShiftyAdventuresInNookieWood600PR260912\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/JohnCaleShiftyAdventuresInNookieWood600PR260912-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b id=\"internal-source-marker_0.47332719597034156\"><br \/>\n<\/b>John Cale\u2019s latest is a weird one. But then again, you\u2019d expect nothing less from the man.<!--more--> From (primarily) acoustic based dancey numbers like album opener \u201cI Wanna Talk 2 U,\u201d to the fuzzy vibe of \u201cScotland Yard,\u201d to bizarre experiments with autotune, Cale doesn\u2019t let the listener become too comfortable in any one aural space. \u201cHemingway\u201d is a beauty of a track about old Papa, with the refrain of \u201cYou\u2019ve got a thousand-yard stare\u201d repeating into the distance. \u201cDecember Rains\u201d is a cool number that gets stuck in my head. Not everything works here, but John Cale seems like the kind of artist who doesn\u2019t really give a fuck; he\u2019s just following the muse where it takes him. While certainly not my favourite album to cross my desk in recent months, it has a certain quality that sticks with you. Well worth a listen if experimentation within fairly rigid confines of the pop song are your thing, and probably worth at least one spin even if it isn\u2019t. (Double Six Records, <a href=\"http:\/\/doublesixrecords.com\" target=\"_blank\">doublesixrecords.com<\/a>)<b id=\"internal-source-marker_0.47332719597034156\"> Sheldon Birnie<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Cale\u2019s latest is a weird one. But then again, you\u2019d expect nothing less from the man.<\/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":[487,1045],"class_list":["post-6646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-john-cale","tag-ulteriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646","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=6646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}