{"id":799,"date":"2010-04-07T11:38:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T17:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=799"},"modified":"2010-04-07T11:38:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T17:38:14","slug":"review-systems-officer-underslept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/04\/07\/review-systems-officer-underslept\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Systems Officer &#8211; Underslept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-800\" title=\"systems officer\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/systems-officer.jpg\" alt=\"systems officer\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/>Before we proceed, let\u2019s get a few things out of the way. This indie rock record contains none of the following: brightly-coloured art school drop-out cover art; shitty, tin-can recording quality; oversized sunglasses; Springsteen rip-offs; off-key singing; band members from Brooklyn; songs about summertime; or any whiff of blog hype. Still reading? Good. Systems Officer is the solo project of Armistead Burwell Smith IV of Three Mile Pilot and Pinback, and anyone familiar with either of those bands will undoubtedly enjoy <em>Underslept<\/em>. Handling all the instrumentation, Smith demonstrates his skill as a musician, singer and songwriter in a subtle, impressive fashion. This record is filled with catchy, quirky hooks, soaring melodies and Smith\u2019s trademark bass playing. Most impressive of all is Smith\u2019s ability to write original, inspiring and timeless music; music that is completely independent of anything Pitchfork has a hard-on for this week. Indie rock indeed. (Temporary Residence Ltd., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.temporaryresidence.com\">www.temporaryresidence.com<\/a>) <strong>Curran Faris<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before we proceed, let\u2019s get a few things out of the way. This indie rock record contains none of the following: brightly-coloured art school drop-out cover art; shitty, tin-can recording quality; oversized sunglasses; Springsteen rip-offs; off-key singing; band members from Brooklyn; songs about summertime; or any whiff of blog hype. Still reading? Good. Systems Officer [&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":[733,933,1009],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-pinback","tag-systems-officer","tag-three-mile-pilot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","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=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}