{"id":7919,"date":"2013-10-29T15:38:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T15:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=7919"},"modified":"2013-10-29T15:38:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T15:38:41","slug":"construction-destruction-dark-lark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/10\/29\/construction-destruction-dark-lark\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction &#038; Destruction \u2013 Dark Lark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2013\/10\/29\/construction-destruction-dark-lark\/weird_canada-construction_and_deconstruction-dark_lark\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7920\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7920\" alt=\"Weird_Canada-Construction_and_Deconstruction-Dark_Lark\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Weird_Canada-Construction_and_Deconstruction-Dark_Lark-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Dark Lark<\/em> is definitely not gonna win any awards for optimism.<!--more--> In fact, Colleen Collins and David Trenaman\u2019s fifth album is sometimes downright terrifying, but in a good way. The album starts things off with the off-kilter, post-apocalyptic-western track \u201cSick Again,\u201d where Trenaman channels Will Oldham through four brief couplets completely devoid of hope. One of the best tracks on the record is \u201cCato,\u201d which references Cato the Younger reading Phaedo on the night of his death by self-disembowelment (which the lyrics sheet conveniently told me, thanks!). It\u2019s essentially a rollicking rock tune, but the lyrics give it an extra weight and power. Actually, having the lyrics on hand to get into this album is great, because they\u2019re refreshingly and strangely, stiltedly poetic. They also use some interesting words I don\u2019t know (like \u201cdockled\u201d). A couple other highlights include the sludgy, noise-filled \u201cThe Horse Returns,\u201d a slow, head-banging screechfest, and \u201cCrow,\u201d which is probably the most soul-crushing portrait of a broken home I\u2019ve ever heard. And while the darkness doesn\u2019t really let up on this record, the closing track, \u201cThe New Puritans,\u201d is an awesome slice of straight up, badass riff-rock, complete with dead-simple, foot-stomping drums and Collins\u2019 fragile-yet-powerful, otherwordly wail. A good album to sip whiskey to alone in the dark while you slink into an autumn depression. In the woods. (Quarantine Music,<a href=\"http:\/\/constructionanddestruction.bandcamp.com\"> constructionanddestruction.bandcamp.com<\/a>)<b id=\"docs-internal-guid-56a296fa-eb57-5e88-2ba3-b66266b17257\"> Matt Williams<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark Lark is definitely not gonna win any awards for optimism.<\/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":[1056],"class_list":["post-7919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-utn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7919","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=7919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}