{"id":802,"date":"2010-04-07T11:40:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T17:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=802"},"modified":"2010-04-07T11:40:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T17:40:22","slug":"review-hawksley-workman-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/04\/07\/review-hawksley-workman-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Hawksley Workman &#8211; Meat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-803\" title=\"hawksley_workman-meat\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/hawksley_workman-meat.jpg\" alt=\"hawksley_workman-meat\" width=\"250\" height=\"222\" \/>By now, you should know what to expect from Hawksley Workman. <em>Meat<\/em> is his eleventh full-length in about as many years, the latest in a string of similarly average singer-songwriter alt-rock records. Workman hasn\u2019t really put out anything less than a middling-at-best album, but at the same time, he\u2019s never produced much that is truly great. It\u2019s a wonder that without a particular career-defining release, he\u2019s managed to sustain such a successful career for so long. True to form, <em>Meat<\/em> toes the line more than anything, not really offering up anything that will surprise anyone who\u2019s heard the man over the last ten years. Warbling piano-ballads? Choppy drum and bass-driven rhythms? Self-loathing, occasionally-awkward lyrics? All in abundance here. (Especially that last one\u2014expect to hear plenty of bizarre lines, including \u201cCry my little chocolate mouth\/The sun will come out\/To seek a smile.\u201d Seriously.) It\u2019s hard to call <em>Meat<\/em> a disappointment, because it\u2019s exactly in line with everything that Workman has ever done. He\u2019s found his audience, and he knows how to deliver what they want. After ten years, he doesn\u2019t ask more out of them, or of himself, opting to remain well within his comfort zone. (Isadora, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawksleyworkman.com\">www.hawksleyworkman.com<\/a>) <strong>Kevan Hannah<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now, you should know what to expect from Hawksley Workman. Meat is his eleventh full-length in about as many years, the latest in a string of similarly average singer-songwriter alt-rock records. Workman hasn\u2019t really put out anything less than a middling-at-best album, but at the same time, he\u2019s never produced much that is truly [&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":[424],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-hawksley-workman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","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=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}