{"id":757,"date":"2010-04-07T10:37:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T16:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=757"},"modified":"2010-04-07T10:37:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T16:37:21","slug":"review-lightspeed-champion-life-is-sweet-nice-to-meet-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/04\/07\/review-lightspeed-champion-life-is-sweet-nice-to-meet-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Lightspeed Champion &#8211; Life is Sweet! Nice to Meet You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-758\" title=\"lightspeed champion\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/lightspeed-champion.jpg\" alt=\"lightspeed champion\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/>With his second album, New York-residing Brit Devont\u00e9 Hynes (a.k.a. Lightspeed Champion) has shed the folk-infused acoustic guitar of his debut, <em>Falling Off the Lavender Bridge<\/em>, for classical pianos, electric guitar, \u201970s synth and musical theatre. Straying from what would have been the safest road, Hynes refrained from releasing another \u201cTell Me What It\u2019s Worth\u201d or \u201cMidnight Surprise\u201d and attempted to create something exceptional. The result isn\u2019t perfect but it\u2019s different without losing the pop sensibilities that will, hopefully, make Lightspeed Champion stand out from every other band that received some sort of attention in 2009 from North America\u2019s ostentatious yet high-consuming indie crowd. There is a looming aura of pretension when relatively underachieving pop musicians include \u201cintermissions\u201d on their album, but there is no denying that the short piano breaks progress the music inconspicuously. Maybe it was the influence of producer Ben Allen (Animal Collective, Gnarls Barkley) or maybe Hynes is finding his place within the music world. Either way, Lightspeed Champion\u2019s sophomore release offers a pleasant surprise to wary listeners. (Domino, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dominorecords.us\">www.dominorecords.us<\/a>) <strong>Cindy Doyle<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With his second album, New York-residing Brit Devont\u00e9 Hynes (a.k.a. Lightspeed Champion) has shed the folk-infused acoustic guitar of his debut, Falling Off the Lavender Bridge, for classical pianos, electric guitar, \u201970s synth and musical theatre. Straying from what would have been the safest road, Hynes refrained from releasing another \u201cTell Me What It\u2019s Worth\u201d [&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":[550],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-lightspeed-champion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","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=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}