{"id":821,"date":"2010-04-07T11:57:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T17:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=821"},"modified":"2010-04-07T11:57:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T17:57:08","slug":"review-steve-basham-thicker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/04\/07\/review-steve-basham-thicker\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Steve Basham &#8211; Thicker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-822\" title=\"steve basham thicker\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/steve-basham-thicker.jpg\" alt=\"steve basham thicker\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/>Local weirdo-rocker Steve Basham\u2019s follow-up to his previous solo disc Thick comes at you with the same lo-fi hilariousness that his music collective Mortfell Oktorium are known for. The first cut, \u201cBored Like a Dinosaur Robot with His Magical Pet Dog,\u201d is an hilarious tale of honesty and intrigue in which Basham laments about writing songs because he\u2019s bored until he starts another year of art school. That sets the stage for a series of rockin\u2019 playful songs about underwater spiders and dead whales. With help from his Mortfell bandmates J.R. Hill and Toby Gillies, Basham\u2019s songs are a lot catchier and thoughtful than his previous efforts without losing their charming silly spirit. (Mortfell Oktorium, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/stevestbasham\">www.myspace.com\/stevestbasham<\/a>) <strong>Kent Davies<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local weirdo-rocker Steve Basham\u2019s follow-up to his previous solo disc Thick comes at you with the same lo-fi hilariousness that his music collective Mortfell Oktorium are known for. The first cut, \u201cBored Like a Dinosaur Robot with His Magical Pet Dog,\u201d is an hilarious tale of honesty and intrigue in which Basham laments about writing [&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":[563,910],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-local","tag-steve-basham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","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=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}