{"id":910,"date":"2010-06-03T07:31:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T13:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=910"},"modified":"2010-06-03T07:31:04","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T13:31:04","slug":"review-ralph-liverpool-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/06\/03\/review-ralph-liverpool-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Ralph &#8211; Liverpool EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/ralphl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-911\" title=\"ralphl\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/ralphl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>Ralph Alfonso has been a busy guy; running a label, and a publishing a zine, and contributing to other artists\u2019 and writers\u2019 projects. Enough to make some forget that Alfonso has a bit of a recording history of his own. This is the first Alfonso release since 2001\u2019s <em>This Is for the Night People<\/em>, a collection of poetry and a pastiche of music that wouldn\u2019t sound out of place on the CBC, committed to tape. In fact, all of Alfonso\u2019s CDs have that late night radio comfort factor to them&#8230; but anyway, the EP. If you\u2019re gonna do three songs in under 12 minutes, make sure they\u2019re quality. And they are. \u201cBilly Fury, Billy Fury\u201d sounds like a Blues Explosion song, a totally welcome surprise (I was expecting a touch more jazzy business, given what\u2019s come before). Ari Shine\u2019s guitarwork is the star of the song. Congrats! Next, this acoustic version of \u201cYesterday &amp; Today\u201d is total punk-as-fuck,\u00a0 unplugged power chords courtesy of Dave Rave (Teenage Head) with smoky snarled vocals. It\u2019s bad-ass like you wouldn\u2019t think an acoustic could be. And finally, the live version of \u201cPeople that Love Forgot\u201d rides the \u201cLouie Louie\u201d riff \u2019n\u2019 vibe back into the garage, almost killing the original (save for the killer solo found on \u201cCoffee, Jazz and Poetry\u201d). Enough of the hors d\u2019oeuvres; bring on the main course, Ralph! (Bongobeat, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bongobeat.com\">www.bongobeat.com<\/a>) <strong>Patrick Michalishyn<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Alfonso has been a busy guy; running a label, and a publishing a zine, and contributing to other artists\u2019 and writers\u2019 projects. Enough to make some forget that Alfonso has a bit of a recording history of his own. This is the first Alfonso release since 2001\u2019s This Is for the Night People, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}