{"id":8442,"date":"2014-01-28T17:14:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T17:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=8442"},"modified":"2014-01-28T17:14:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T17:14:29","slug":"pat-lepoidevin-american-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2014\/01\/28\/pat-lepoidevin-american-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat LePoidevin &#8211; American Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2014\/01\/28\/pat-lepoidevin-american-fiction\/patlep\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8443\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8443\" alt=\"patlep\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/patlep-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Pat LePoidevin\u2019s latest release, <em>American Fiction<\/em>, plays as a lyrical \u201cmapping of the stars\u201d \u2013 connecting the dots of small town America to nostalgic accounts of love, lust, identity and wanderlust.<!--more--> This is LePoidevin\u2019s fourth full-length album, and asserts his voice as a gentle and aching singer-songwriter with a keen ear for meta-philosophical meanderings. The album was written along the Nova Scotia coast one winter with LePoidevin\u2019s childhood mate Lewis Smith &#8211; all songs on the album are fictional tales but the inspiration is true in its rural Canadian origins.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A misty-eyed romantic fantasy that\u2019s often so tender, I\u2019m pretty sure my stereo let out a sigh. The opening track <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/matt-21-1\/winter-park-co\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWinter Park, CO\u201d<\/a> is warm, teasing, and flirtatious with the sound of ringing strings and the feeling of open air. This album is lovely and lush, reimagining small-town existence and rural coquetry, with plots of missed glances at county fairs and high school football games. LePoidevin\u2019s vocals have the scratchy underbelly that fans of Dave Matthews will so appreciate \u2013 more than that, this is a greatly cohesive album and pairs perfectly with tea and sunsets. (Pigeon Row, <a href=\"http:\/\/patlepoidevin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">patlepoidevin.com\/<\/a>) <strong>Victoria King<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pat LePoidevin\u2019s latest release, American Fiction, plays as a lyrical \u201cmapping of the stars\u201d \u2013 connecting the dots of small town America to nostalgic accounts of love, lust, identity and wanderlust.<\/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":[164],"class_list":["post-8442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-canadiana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442","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=8442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}