{"id":7331,"date":"2013-07-16T16:10:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T16:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=7331"},"modified":"2013-07-16T16:10:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T16:10:01","slug":"renny-wilson-sugarglider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/07\/16\/renny-wilson-sugarglider\/","title":{"rendered":"Renny Wilson \u2013 Sugarglider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2013\/07\/16\/renny-wilson-sugarglider\/homepage_large-60765f1c\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7332\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7332\" alt=\"homepage_large.60765f1c\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/homepage_large.60765f1c-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The saxophone is schmaltzy. Every connotation derived from each note signifies something cheesy and unappealing.<!--more--> Without that same sax though, <em>Sugarglider<\/em> might just be like so many other indie-dance albums. Renny Wilson doesn\u2019t just use the saxophone, it\u2019s used proudly, artfully incorporated into the backbone of songs like \u201cBy and By.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Borrowing playfully from the most fun corners of chillwave, funk and disco might be painful for some, maybe a guilty pleasure for others. Hopefully there are those who are able to hear songs like \u201cCome Tomorrow,\u201d and hear the New Order by way of a sunny Alberta and let go of their prejudices.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a great album for letting go, and an ideal foray into music for Wilson, as it establishes him as someone with a keen ear for sounds that inspire joy (even if the lyrics aren\u2019t joyful) and the feeling of letting go of your inhibitions. As an album, it plays like a well-sequenced DJ mix, with tracks segueing masterfully into each other. There\u2019s plenty of room here to grow too; to move past the surface-value dance tracks and deepen the emotional resonance of the sounds. But until then, this record is a worthy entrance into the recorded world. (Mint Records, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mintrecs.com\/\">mintrecs.com<\/a>)<b id=\"docs-internal-guid-529f4266-e83c-aa85-04e9-b633be20a92e\"> Devin King<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The saxophone is schmaltzy. Every connotation derived from each note signifies something cheesy and unappealing.<\/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":[834,1056],"class_list":["post-7331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-saxophone","tag-utn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331","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=7331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}