{"id":879,"date":"2010-06-03T09:15:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T15:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=879"},"modified":"2010-06-03T09:15:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T15:15:32","slug":"review-kaki-king-junior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/06\/03\/review-kaki-king-junior\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Kaki King &#8211; Junior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"kaki king\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Nw3iG3uUXBc\/S8SmBw3OvgI\/AAAAAAAAAMk\/ppAKPsoVAj8\/s320\/Kaki-King-Junior-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>With such a personal arsenal of talent, Kaki King should succeed. But <em>Junior<\/em>, her sixth album, is a bit of a disappointment. It\u2019s not terrible, but she\u2019s capable of a better, more focused collection. As songs like \u201cSloan Shore\u201d and \u201cSpit It Back in My Mouth\u201d demonstrate, King is a gifted songwriter and a truly singular guitarist (after all, there\u2019s a reason she won a Golden Globe for <em>Into the Wild<\/em>\u2019s original score), but her bland vocals and uninspired lyrics tend to undercut each song that uses them. Inspired by spy novels, her lead single, \u201cThe Betrayer,\u201d (which might be the worst song on the album), is an attempt at angular punk that tries to turn the idea of infidelity into one of political intrigue. For all its energy and urgency, \u201cThe Betrayer\u201d falls as flat as an opener as the angsty, high school journal entry \u201cSunnyside\u201d does as a closer. The album\u2019s best moments are those in which King plays to her strengths, and her producer, Malcom Burn, allows those strengths to stand on their own (as they do on \u201cSloan Shore\u201d). Someone also needs to tell King that the espionage concept is kind of lame. (Rounder, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rounder.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.rounder.com<\/a>) <strong>Jonathan Dyck<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With such a personal arsenal of talent, Kaki King should succeed. But Junior, her sixth album, is a bit of a disappointment. It\u2019s not terrible, but she\u2019s capable of a better, more focused collection. As songs like \u201cSloan Shore\u201d and \u201cSpit It Back in My Mouth\u201d demonstrate, King is a gifted songwriter and a truly [&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":[],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","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=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}