{"id":8053,"date":"2013-11-19T16:17:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T16:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=8053"},"modified":"2013-11-19T16:17:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T16:17:53","slug":"the-heavy-blinkers-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/11\/19\/the-heavy-blinkers-health\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heavy Blinkers \u2013 Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2013\/11\/19\/the-heavy-blinkers-health\/heavyblinkershealth-300x269\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8054\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8054\" alt=\"HeavyBlinkersHealth-300x269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/HeavyBlinkersHealth-300x269.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I wish that <em>Health<\/em> were the album that it wants to be.<!--more--> The Heavy Blinkers present an album that tries hard to be a lost east coast Brian Wilson treasure, but miss the mark. Elements are certainly there \u2013 the Van Dykes Park style orchestration is perhaps the highlight of the disk as it carries the mood throughout, <a href=\"http:\/\/theheavyblinkers.com\/anna-karina-i-was-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cAnna Karina, I Was Wrong\u201d<\/a> being one particularly strong example.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Where Health struggles is as a pop album. It\u2019s a lofty goal to make a Brian Wilson album. In his later career Brian Wilson himself has struggled to do that very thing with mixed success. It\u2019s actually helpful to think of this more as a score, which had been part of founding Blinker Jason Michael MacIsaac\u2019s creative process at the time. Apparently written as a musical, complete with guest vocals from Jenn Grant, Sondre Lerche and the High Llamas\u2019 Sean O&#8217;Hagan.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not quite as good as it ought to be; as an isolated score, it\u2019s more successful, particularly the orchestration by David Christensen. As a song cycle though, it falters when it is weighed down by the lyrics. (Factor, f<a href=\"http:\/\/www.factor.ca\/\">actor.ca<\/a>)<b id=\"docs-internal-guid-27251888-6d49-1450-78aa-f68f003d947f\"> Devin King<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish that Health were the album that it wants to be.<\/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-8053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8053","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=8053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}