{"id":7830,"date":"2013-10-16T15:15:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T15:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=7830"},"modified":"2013-10-16T15:15:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T15:15:49","slug":"pistol-george-warren-hoots-deuce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/10\/16\/pistol-george-warren-hoots-deuce\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistol George Warren \u2013 Hoots Deuce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2013\/10\/16\/pistol-george-warren-hoots-deuce\/pistol\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7831\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7831\" alt=\"pistol\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/pistol-291x300.jpg\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I have no idea what <em>Hoots Deuce<\/em> means. Two hits from a pipe? Is it when an owl takes a shit? <!--more-->Luckily, the fourth release (first one completely self-produced by the band) from Sudbury\u2019s Pistol George Warren doesn\u2019t at all sound like an owl shitting. It\u2019s absolutely packed with infectious energy and harkens back to big-band rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, R&amp;B and Motown. There are actually 12 people who played on this album (four of them named Matthew, or a variation of it). That big family vibe is obvious on tracks like the ridiculously catchy single, <a href=\"http:\/\/pistolgeorgewarren.bandcamp.com\/track\/high-school-blues\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cHigh School Blues,\u201d<\/a> which features a hyper-groovy staccato guitar riff on top of toe-tapping drums, lead-singer Matt Ralph\u2019s echo-drenched cool-guy voice, and some ass-kicking, soulful backing vocals from Stephany Saroka, Jen McKerral, and Shari Diaz (who do their thing on the first three tracks of the EP). \u201cNo Love\u201d is more upbeat and dance-y, and features a nice solo break and some sort of crazy tremolo effect on Ralph\u2019s vocals at one point. \u201cBlue Hawaii\u201d sounds exactly like you\u2019d expect a song named \u201cBlue Hawaii\u201d to sound like, complete with the doo-wop backing vocals and summery, surfy sound. The back end of the EP lacks a bit of the magic that makes the first half so fun to listen to, but it\u2019s not bad, either. This band pretty much sounds like a bunch of kids read a copy of The Commitments and thought it seemed like a cool idea. And it is a cool idea. Pistol George Warren: bringin\u2019 the soul back to Sudbury. (Independent, <a href=\"http:\/\/pistolgeorgewarren.bandcamp.com\">pistolgeorgewarren.bandcamp.com<\/a>) <strong>Matt Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea what Hoots Deuce means. Two hits from a pipe? Is it when an owl takes a shit?<\/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":[453,1056],"class_list":["post-7830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-indie","tag-utn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830","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=7830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}