{"id":892,"date":"2010-06-03T09:21:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T15:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=892"},"modified":"2010-06-03T09:21:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T15:21:09","slug":"review-frog-eyes-pauls-tomb-a-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/06\/03\/review-frog-eyes-pauls-tomb-a-triumph\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Frog Eyes &#8211; Paul&#8217;s Tomb: A Triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Frog Eyes Paul's Tomb\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51URoonjDEL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\nNo, the members of Frog Eyes did not lack foresight when they agreed to subtitle this album \u201cA Triumph.\u201d Recorded live off the floor, <em>Paul\u2019s Tomb<\/em> is Frog Eyes in complete control of the battlefield. Of course, frontman Carey Mercer (who now splits his time between Frog Eyes and his supergroup, Swan Lake) still struggles through each hard-won war cry, shooting what he calls \u201ccontrapuntal sharp blasts or hope\u201d at anyone who dares to listen. The result is what is probably Frog Eyes\u2019 most accessible album to date; and with an opening track (\u201cA Flower in a Glove\u201d) that surpasses nine minutes\u2014not to mention Mercer\u2019s characteristically cryptic lyrics howled at an inhuman pace\u2014it\u2019s really quite a feat. \u201cRebel Horns\u201d has a thumping bass-driven hook that erupts into unrelenting walls of feedback, while \u201cViolent Psalms\u201d makes wonderful use of new band member Megan Boddy\u2019s serene voice as a foil for Mercer\u2019s affliction. Few fans of Frog Eyes will consider this album an equal to Mercer\u2019s previous work (<em>Folded Palm<\/em>, anyone?), but <em>Paul\u2019s Tomb: A Triumph<\/em> is another little victory for one of Canada\u2019s most underrated bands. (Dead Oceans, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadoceans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.deadoceans.com<\/a>) <strong>Jonathan Dyck<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, the members of Frog Eyes did not lack foresight when they agreed to subtitle this album \u201cA Triumph.\u201d Recorded live off the floor, Paul\u2019s Tomb is Frog Eyes in complete control of the battlefield. Of course, frontman Carey Mercer (who now splits his time between Frog Eyes and his supergroup, Swan Lake) still struggles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[166,377],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-carey-mercer","tag-frog-eyes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","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=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}