{"id":7836,"date":"2013-10-16T15:16:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T15:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=7836"},"modified":"2013-10-16T15:16:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T15:16:09","slug":"deer-tick-negativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/10\/16\/deer-tick-negativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Deer Tick &#8211; Negativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2013\/10\/16\/deer-tick-negativity\/deer_tick-negativity-500x500\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7837\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7837\" alt=\"deer_tick-negativity-500x500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/deer_tick-negativity-500x500-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b id=\"docs-internal-guid-3360983e-98ba-c575-d6de-7e6ee3ab576e\"><br \/>\n<\/b>The latest from Rhode Island\u2019s rowdy rockers Deer Tick is certainly a study in the evolution of a band.<!--more--> Where their last record, 2011\u2019s <em>Divine Providence<\/em> was a rollicking cocaine bender of a ride, <em>Negativity<\/em> is the inevitable emotional rollercoaster of the comedown to follow. In places, like \u201cThe Curtain\u201d and \u201cThe Dream\u2019s In the Ditch,\u201d Deer Tick come across as an angrier, wiser version of the boys they were on <em>The Black Dirt Sessions<\/em> or <em>Born on Flag Day<\/em>. In other places, like \u201cJust Friends\u201d and \u201cBig House,\u201d John McCauley shows he can sing sincere heartbreakers with the best of them. Throughout, the band expands their sounds far beyond the \u201calt-country\u201d pigeonhole they found themselves in after their beauty debut, <em>War Elephant<\/em>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3khH9ih2XJg\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cTurn the Page\u201d<\/a>-like sax solo and the subtle coral backups on \u201cMirror Walls\u201d are particularly on point. My only hope is that John and the boys won\u2019t get lost forever in the eponymous downer that spawned this great addition to the discography of an always interesting band, and will come out swinging a little more on the next one. (Arts &amp; Crafts, <a href=\"http:\/\/deertickmusic.com\" target=\"_blank\">deertickmusic.com<\/a>)<b id=\"docs-internal-guid-3360983e-98ba-c575-d6de-7e6ee3ab576e\"> Sheldon Birnie<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest from Rhode Island\u2019s rowdy rockers Deer Tick is certainly a study in the evolution of a band.<\/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":[432,817,1056],"class_list":["post-7836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-hillbilly-highway","tag-root-cellar","tag-utn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836","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=7836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}