{"id":9217,"date":"2014-07-08T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=9217"},"modified":"2014-07-08T15:53:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T15:53:00","slug":"boy-bear-harlequin-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2014\/07\/08\/boy-bear-harlequin-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy &#038; Bear &#8211; Harlequin Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2014\/07\/08\/boy-bear-harlequin-dream\/boy_and_bear_harlequin_dream_0813\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9218\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9218\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/boy_and_bear_harlequin_dream_0813-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"boy_and_bear_harlequin_dream_0813\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Boy &amp; Bear are a band that end up being in that weird gap between indie rock and folk that\u2019s currently popular, for some reason.<!--more--> In their publicity photo, three of the five members wear hats, and two of these hats are flat caps, and this lets you know that they\u2019re in touch with their authentic and folksy roots. The other hat-wearer is wearing a fedora, which defies comprehension. Sometimes you can hear a little twinge of their singer\u2019s Australian accent, which is very unique, but it\u2019s generally buried under sounding like either a slightly harder-rocking Mumford and Sons (\u201cSouthern Sun\u201d) or a significantly more conventional Grizzly Bear (\u201cHarlequin Dream\u201d). This isn\u2019t to say they\u2019re bad, just extremely conventional. \u201cThree-Headed Woman\u201d veers dangerously close to rocking out in its first ten seconds, but then turns into another 100-beats-per-minute stomper that you can listen to while enjoying a delicious whale tail at the Winnipeg Folk Festival. \u201cEnd of the Line\u201d is Boy &amp; Bear\u2019s big anthem, which will provide you with a very meaningful experience.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I\u2019m making this sound way worse than it is by simply describing it in neutral terms, but by all means, if you like this sort of thing, you\u2019ll like Boy &amp; Bear. At the worst, you can, as I said, enjoy a delicious whale tail while listening to their music! (Island, <a href=\"http:\/\/boyandbear.com\" target=\"_blank\">boyandbear.com<\/a>) <b>Topher Duguay<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boy &amp; Bear are a band that end up being in that weird gap between indie rock and folk that\u2019s currently popular, for some reason.<\/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":[1105],"class_list":["post-9217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-winnipeg-folk-fest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217","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=9217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}