{"id":8622,"date":"2014-03-11T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=8622"},"modified":"2014-03-11T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T16:00:09","slug":"hookworms-pearl-mystic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2014\/03\/11\/hookworms-pearl-mystic\/","title":{"rendered":"Hookworms \u2013 Pearl Mystic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/0000976964_10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8623\" alt=\"0000976964_10\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/0000976964_10-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0\u201cAway\/Towards,\u201d the epic, nearly nine-minute long opener on <em>Pearl Mystic<\/em>, slinks slowly at the beginning, quickly making it clear that it\u2019s leading you to something very big.<!--more--> The psychedelic haze of the head-nodder it turns into doesn\u2019t disappoint, swirling through the celebrated loud\/quiet\/loud dynamic with thick guitars and solid bass lines punctuated by \u201cwhisper-to-a-scream\u201d vocals. The six-string bombast continues with \u201cForm and Function,\u201d a slower, druggy, swagger-filled tune that sounds like it could\u2019ve been a Brian Jonestown Massacre song, if they still wrote good songs (karma\u2019s a bitch, eh?). There are some interludes to provide a droning relaxation between all the main tracks, and after the first one, the band slows it down for \u201cIn Our Time,\u201d which drags along a little bit like background music at a party where you accidentally chugged a bunch of that cough syrup you can\u2019t get in Canada. \u201cSince We Had Changed\u201d is just as slow-moving, but it\u2019s powered by a groovy, repetitive bass line and guitar drones that sound like sunlight, and is probably something people would love to listen to while they\u2019re high, but high in a \u201cman, everything\u2019s gonna be okay\u201d way. The last time the album gets a real dose of adrenaline is \u201cPreservation,\u201d drenched in glorious distortion freak-outs and enough echo on the wailing vocals that it sounds like they were recorded at the bottom of a canyon. I once read something that said this band doesn\u2019t do any drugs, which is hard to believe. That\u2019s how much it sounds like drugs. If you walked into a room in slow motion, lookin\u2019 real cool with your sunglasses on, and immediately started sweaty-dancing to a light show surrounded by a bunch of good looking people, one of these songs might be playing. (Weird World Record Co., <a href=\"http:\/\/hookworms.bandcamp.com\">hookworms.bandcamp.com<\/a>) <strong>Matt Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u201cAway\/Towards,\u201d the epic, nearly nine-minute long opener on Pearl Mystic, slinks slowly at the beginning, quickly making it clear that it\u2019s leading you to something very big.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1056],"class_list":["post-8622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-utn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}