{"id":9572,"date":"2014-10-07T13:42:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T13:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=9572"},"modified":"2014-10-07T13:42:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T13:42:10","slug":"mo-kenney-in-my-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2014\/10\/07\/mo-kenney-in-my-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Mo Kenney \u2013 In My Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2014\/10\/07\/mo-kenney-in-my-dreams\/mokenny\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9573\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9573\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/mokenny-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"mokenny\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On <i>In My Dreams,<\/i> the second full-length from 24-year-old Nova Scotian Mo Kenney, the talented-beyond-her-years songwriter proves herself a master of the musical kiss-off.<!--more--> On just the second track of the record, Kenney lazily demands, \u201ctake me outside and blow my fuckin\u2019 head off.\u201d And that\u2019s after the painfully acerbic, borderline sadistic \u201cI Faked It,\u201d where she matter-of-factly states, \u201cit was never you and me\/when I said it was forever I was lyin\u2019 through my teeth.\u201d It\u2019s (Taylor) Swiftian: catchy as hell, but with the guts to say how she really feels in sharp, simple words (and copious, effective cursing). Even in the case you might be the subject of her barbs, the melodies are so good you\u2019d just have to let it go, like a bruising right hook that somehow ends up feeling like a kiss.<\/p>\n<p>Kenney has more tricks up her sleeve than clever put-downs, though. Take the head-nodding, song-of-the-year candidate \u201cTelephones,\u201d where she wrestles with the desire to have her romantic cake and eat it too; the woozy, 70s dinosaur stomp of \u201cUntouchable,\u201d complete with super-shred guitar blast. Or the fleeting, dark and beautiful echo of \u201cWind Will Blow.\u201d But she\u2019s arguably at her best with the title track, an aching, vulnerable, and 100 per cent pure pop song, where she sings, \u201cI\u2019m beginning to think you only exist in my dreams\/waitin\u2019 on a phone call, wearin\u2019 out your memory, where have you been?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Kenney\u2019s self-titled debut record proved her talent beyond a doubt, <i>In My Dreams<\/i> is light-years ahead, solidifying her not only as one of Canada\u2019s great new songwriters, but one also blessed with a gift for addictive melody usually reserved for the top of the pop charts. It\u2019s so infectious you\u2019ll be hearing it in your own dreams. (Pheromone Recordings\/New Scotland Records, <a href=\"http:\/\/mokenney.com\" target=\"_blank\">mokenney.com<\/a>) <b>Matt Williams<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On In My Dreams, the second full-length from 24-year-old Nova Scotian Mo Kenney, the talented-beyond-her-years songwriter proves herself a master of the musical kiss-off.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-9572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572","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=9572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}