{"id":6990,"date":"2013-05-28T15:43:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T15:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=6990"},"modified":"2013-05-28T15:43:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T15:43:45","slug":"mudhoney-vanishing-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/05\/28\/mudhoney-vanishing-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Mudhoney – Vanishing Point"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MudhoneyVanishingPoint\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Man… What is there that can be said about Mudhoney that hasn\u2019t been said one hundred thousand times? The band has been around forever and has, for the most part, stayed true to their sound. They\u2019ve watched as fads have swirl around them and passed off into the ether, friends and peers blow up and burn out and they\u2019ve probably played everywhere there is to play. They were around before grunge was a thing, before MP3s killed the album, before a big muff pedal was standard issue and yet, in spite of the many grains of sand that has fallen through the hourglass and all the water that has passed under the bridge, Mudhoney still sounds relevant as they did when Mark Arm and Steve Turner split from Green River<\/a> and begged the flannel clad masses of Seattle touch \u2018em cause they were, and probably still are, sick. What I\u2019m trying to say is that Vanishing Point<\/em> doesn\u2019t sound like a band that has past their prime. In fact, the new album is as any hip new jam that the kids are kickin\u2019 out today.<\/p>\n

Although Vanishing Point<\/em> doesn\u2019t see the band making any huge sonic deviations, you can tell their perspective has shifted from that of the rebel rousing twenty-somethings to the elder statesmen of fucking shit up. That perspective seems to be front and centre here. From the opener \u201cSlipping Away\u201d<\/a> to the album closer \u201cDouchbags on Parade,\u201d the thematic thrust of the album is that of old master passing on wisdom to the kids freaking out about a changing world. If the music accompanying this message felt stale, Mudhoney would come of as a bunch of old fuddy duddys lecturing the young punks. Thanks to energetic performances and the ability to write rockin\u2019 riff and eathquakin\u2019 rhythms, Vanishing Point comes off as the musical equivalent of the the roman ruins that adorn it’s cover, weathered by age but still hard as fuck. (Sub Pop, subpop.com<\/a>) Dave Skene<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Man… What is there that can be said about Mudhoney that hasn\u2019t been said one hundred thousand times?<\/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":[410,641,915],"class_list":["post-6990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-grunge","tag-mudhoney","tag-sub-pop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990","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=6990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}