{"id":751,"date":"2010-04-07T10:33:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T16:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=751"},"modified":"2010-04-07T10:33:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T16:33:27","slug":"review-jookabox-dead-zone-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/04\/07\/review-jookabox-dead-zone-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Jookabox &#8211; Dead Zone Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-752\" title=\"jookabox\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/jookabox.jpg\" alt=\"jookabox\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/>David Adamson, who went by Grampall Jookabox on 2008\u2019s messy but promising Ropechain, has made some changes since his last outing. This time around things are consistently darker, percussive and industrial. Of course, Adamson\u2019s sound is still hard to pin down. He dabbles in hip hop, folk and electronica, kind of like Beck with more backbone and a shorter attention span. And although his songs have more coherence on <em>Dead Zone Boys<\/em>, he\u2019s still as unpredictable and spastic as he was on Ropechain. Jookabox offers a more cinematic approach: instead of a random smattering of ideas, what we have here is a low budget horror-movie soundtrack. Dead Zone Boys starts strong. The bombastic \u201cPhantom Don\u2019t Go\u201d and its doppelganger \u201cDon\u2019t Go Phantom\u201d are an appropriately off-kilter beginning for an album devoted to the living dead. But midway through the album the quality of Adamson\u2019s material begins to wane. The flat \u201cZombie Tear Drops\u201d is uncharacteristically boring, and Adamson is still stuck on Alvin and the Chipmunks-style vocal manipulation for some reason. Jookabox still has a lot of wild, unharnessed energy, but it could be better spent. (Asthmatic Kitty, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asthmatickitty.com\">www.asthmatickitty.com<\/a>) <strong>Jonathan Dyck<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Adamson, who went by Grampall Jookabox on 2008\u2019s messy but promising Ropechain, has made some changes since his last outing. This time around things are consistently darker, percussive and industrial. Of course, Adamson\u2019s sound is still hard to pin down. He dabbles in hip hop, folk and electronica, kind of like Beck with more [&hellip;]<\/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":[496],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-jookabox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","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=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}