{"id":7590,"date":"2013-08-27T14:31:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T14:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=7590"},"modified":"2013-08-27T14:31:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T14:31:57","slug":"astral-forever-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/08\/27\/astral-forever-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Astral &#8211; Forever After"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2013\/08\/27\/astral-forever-after\/620111227100017001_t300\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7591\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7591\" alt=\"620111227100017001_t300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/620111227100017001_t300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right out of the gate, Astral sounds like the early 90s The Cure that got really angry.<!--more--> Blend that with some <em>Joshua Tree<\/em>-era U2 without the histrionics of a self-righteous front man and you\u2019ve got Astral. <em>Forever After<\/em> is an interesting combination of dreamy atmosphere and shrieking walls of guitar, which contributes to an under-produced sound to the album. It is this raw energy that sets <em>Forever After<\/em> apart from so many other post-pop records released in the last decade and contrived or not, it adds a sincerity to the music sorely lacking in Astral\u2019s contemporaries. The opener, \u201cNarcissus,\u201d will have you thinking \u201cfuck yeah\u201d within seconds and by the time \u201cFall Away\u201d hits a few songs later, you\u2019ll be saying \u201cfuck yeah!\u201d The song \u201cNot Too Late\u201d sounds like something that would have fit nicely in a Lynch film like <em>Lost Highway<\/em> or <em>Mulholland Drive<\/em>. \u201cDahlia\u2019s Falling\u201d is reminiscent of Failure\u2019s <em>Fantastic Planet<\/em> record, while \u201cEye to Eye\u201d sounds like My Bloody Valentine with a pulse. In short, Astral\u2019s <em>Forever After<\/em> is worth repeated listens. And remember to listen loudly. (Vibraphone,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vibraphonerecords.com\"> vibraphonerecords.com<\/a>)<b id=\"docs-internal-guid-52587a06-9c9b-174f-d098-4406364095df\"> Myke Lewis<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right out of the gate, Astral sounds like the early 90s The Cure that got really angry.<\/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":[1045],"class_list":["post-7590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-ulteriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7590","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=7590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}