{"id":748,"date":"2010-04-07T10:30:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T16:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=748"},"modified":"2010-04-07T10:30:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T16:30:46","slug":"review-hollerado-record-in-a-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/04\/07\/review-hollerado-record-in-a-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Hollerado – Record in a Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hollerado\"Hollerado is one of those bands. The kind that you\u2019re never really sure how to feel about\u2014they\u2019re good, but not special. Not quite guilty pleasure material, but their simple, familiar brand of no-frills indie rock leaves quite a bit to be desired. And that\u2019s much of what the Ontario quartet\u2019s debut full-length, Record in a Bag<\/em>, is: the feeling that these boys could be doing so much more. Each track is undeniably fun, and principle songwriter Menno Versteeg has a knack for writing earworm hooks, catchy refrains, and even the occasional skybound chorus (see lead single \u201cJuliette\u201d). The songs are all high energy and easily digestible, but in the end, quite shallow. Lyrically, things get a little weak, with lines like \u201cFake drugs make you feel all right\u201d not doing much to help propel the band past their cheery plainness. As far as songwriting is concerned, expect to hear a lot of the same verse-chorus-verse-chorus-breakdown performed on the standard arrangement of two guitars, a bass, and a drum kit. Hollerado does manage to throw one or two curve balls, including a slow-burning organ on \u201cGot to Lose,\u201d but this the exception to the rule and usually only is little more than novelty. It wouldn\u2019t be fair to say that Record in a Bag is undercooked, because it\u2019s not\u2014even despite its completely ordinary nature, it still manages to be cohesive. Rather, Hollerado is underdeveloped as a band. Fun, approachable, but ultimately uninspired and teetering on the edge of forgettable. (Royal Mountain, www.royalmountainrecords.com<\/a>) Kevan Hannah<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hollerado is one of those bands. The kind that you\u2019re never really sure how to feel about\u2014they\u2019re good, but not special. Not quite guilty pleasure material, but their simple, familiar brand of no-frills indie rock leaves quite a bit to be desired. And that\u2019s much of what the Ontario quartet\u2019s debut full-length, Record in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}