{"id":8514,"date":"2014-02-11T16:17:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T16:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=8514"},"modified":"2014-02-11T16:17:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T16:17:48","slug":"the-paper-kites-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2014\/02\/11\/the-paper-kites-states\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paper Kites &#8211; States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2014\/02\/11\/the-paper-kites-states\/the_paper_kites_states_0813\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8515\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8515\" alt=\"the_paper_kites_states_0813\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/the_paper_kites_states_0813.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">With a pair of EPs under their belt, dreamy indie-popsters from down under The Paper Kites have just released their debut full-length album,<em> States<\/em>. <!--more-->Their mellow and melancholy sound is naturally compared to another Aussie band with a cult following, The Go-Betweens, but would fit in equally amongst Belle &amp; Sebastian, The Dream Academy, and local heroes, Les Jupes. Without sounding dated, their sound is a throwback to late 80s college radio, when jangly and punctuated gave way to dreamy and ethereal. Nice bright guitar riffs and banjo fills in the mix give the smooth folk-pop a nice crispness to complete the sound. Mid-album they hit you with the slow-burning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V7d8ei3FEKg&amp;feature=kp\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cCold Kind Hand,\u201d<\/a> a duet delivered with such emotion by founding singers Sam Bentley and Christina Lacy that it leaves you breathless. \u201cIn Reverie\u201d is a great Sundays meets Blue Rodeo mid-tempo rocker drenched in big, fat layers of reverb. While <em>States<\/em> lacks a definite hit single or defining sound, it shows that the Paper Kites are more than capable performers with a real knack for beautiful melodies and harmonies. (Nettwerk, <a href=\"http:\/\/thepaperkites.com.au\/\">thepaperkites.com.au<\/a>) <strong>Broose Tulloch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a pair of EPs under their belt, dreamy indie-popsters from down under The Paper Kites have just released their debut full-length album, States.<\/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":[1056],"class_list":["post-8514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-utn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514","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=8514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}