{"id":935,"date":"2010-06-03T07:38:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T13:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=935"},"modified":"2010-06-03T07:38:21","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T13:38:21","slug":"review-mark-sultan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/06\/03\/review-mark-sultan\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Mark Sultan &#8211; $"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mark_Sultan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-936\" title=\"Mark_Sultan\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mark_Sultan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Amidst working with King Khan under the name BBQ and collaborating with King Khan and the Black Lips as the Almighty Defenders, Mark Sultan had time in 2008 to record <em>$<\/em>, an album full of doo-wop-influenced garage rock. Now, the taste du jour is definitely straightforward garage rock, ask no questions. And here Sultan\u2019s got a bunch of tracks here that do just that\u2014\u201cStatus,\u201d \u201cI\u2019ll Be Loving You\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Look Back\u201d are all guaranteed barn-burners which show off Sultan\u2019s songwriting fleshed out into a full band. But then there are the songs like \u201cIcicles\u201d and \u201cI Am the End,\u201d which are stripped down and chug along, albeit at a snail\u2019s pace. The intro for \u201cI Am the End\u201d goes as far as just using Sultan\u2019s voice, tons of reverb, a tambourine, and ambient noise\u2014yet Sultan doesn\u2019t lose any of his soul despite it. It\u2019s kind of weird to think of, since this album is coming from a guy who has built up his name from a plethora of lo-fi seven-inches, but this is a fully-conscious studio album. Some songs have weird, scratchy noise on them and some others are totally radio friendly. I\u2019d highly doubt seeing Mark Sultan play under his own name and touring these songs, or even playing stripped-down versions of these as BBQ\u2014but then again, that\u2019s why he made an album. (Last Gang, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lastgangentertainment.com\">www.lastgangentertainment.com<\/a>) <strong>Taylor Burgess<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst working with King Khan under the name BBQ and collaborating with King Khan and the Black Lips as the Almighty Defenders, Mark Sultan had time in 2008 to record $, an album full of doo-wop-influenced garage rock. Now, the taste du jour is definitely straightforward garage rock, ask no questions. And here Sultan\u2019s got [&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-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","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=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}