{"id":8050,"date":"2013-11-19T16:16:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T16:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=8050"},"modified":"2013-11-19T16:16:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T16:16:26","slug":"big-french-downtown-runnin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/11\/19\/big-french-downtown-runnin\/","title":{"rendered":"Big French &#8211; Downtown Runnin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2013\/11\/19\/big-french-downtown-runnin\/bigfrenchdowntownrunnin\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8051\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8051\" alt=\"BigFrenchDowntownRunnin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/BigFrenchDowntownRunnin-300x300.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Downtown Runnin<\/em>, the debut from Brooklyn-based experimental pop quintet Big French is a difficult listen and not for everyone, but fans of the Pixies, The Jesus and Mary Chain or Weezer will find the challenge worth it.<!--more--> While neither lo-fi nor vintage, few overdubs and post-production corrections give the album a serrated \u00a0edge. In any given song, a number of layers fight for your attention. \u00a0Short and sweet, averaging 1:40 each, <em>Downtown Runnin<\/em> crams 18 songs into 31 minutes. Singer and principal songwriter Quentin Moore\u2019s vocals are at once twee and screamo, and times just plain abrasive, like a much sharper, \u00a0Geddy Lee, Tiny Tim, or Boats&#8217; Matt Klachefsky. Vocals aside, some of the songs are downright catchy, like the power ballad \u201cWould Not Try\u201d or \u201cPayback,\u201d which belongs in a video game. (Wharf Cat Records, <a href=\"http:\/\/wharfcatrecords.com\/\">wharfcatrecords.com<\/a>)<b id=\"docs-internal-guid-66d57ce4-6d46-2a2a-ba08-0407c730a3d8\"> \u00a0Broose Tulloch<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downtown Runnin, the debut from Brooklyn-based experimental pop quintet Big French is a difficult listen and not for everyone, but fans of the Pixies, The Jesus and Mary Chain or Weezer will find the challenge worth it.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-8050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050","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=8050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}