{"id":958,"date":"2010-06-03T07:52:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T13:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=958"},"modified":"2010-06-03T07:52:51","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T13:52:51","slug":"review-the-whigs-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/06\/03\/review-the-whigs-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Whigs – In the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Replacing the locatedness of their earlier albums with a misguided appeal to the masses, Athens, Ga.\u2019s the Whigs, with their third release In the Dark<\/em>, have produced a clear dud of a record. \u201cBoring\u201d is perhaps the best way to describe the record as the band has taken away all the interesting references to their homeland and replaced them with generic anthem-rock clich\u00e9s and lyrics that are unnecessarily meaningless and na\u00efve. Take the first single \u201cKill Me Carolyne\u201d as an example. Sonically, the track could have been made by any number of bands and it would have sounded the same. This could just as easily been a song written by the Killers or even Muse, as it follows the typical verse-chorus-verse formula, revolving around an over-produced sound sucking any creative fragment or fracture out of the bands aesthetic. And then the lyrics \u201cYou give me the authority\/ you give me the authority\/ you give me the authority\/ to lie.\u201d And then about a minute later comes \u201cYou give me eternity\/you give me eternity\/you give me eternity to die.\u201d Really? If you\u2019re going to use repetition, it\u2019s usually a good idea to make sure what you\u2019re saying is actually worth repeating. Perhaps I\u2019m being too harsh, but I can\u2019t help but see this record as failing on so many different levels. Considering that In the Dark<\/em> was created by a band previously so attuned to its surroundings, it\u2019s shocking to see them putting out such an abstract and opaque piece of work. Pass on this one, folks. (ATO Records, www.atorecords.com<\/a>) Jeff Friesen<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Replacing the locatedness of their earlier albums with a misguided appeal to the masses, Athens, Ga.\u2019s the Whigs, with their third release In the Dark, have produced a clear dud of a record. \u201cBoring\u201d is perhaps the best way to describe the record as the band has taken away all the interesting references to their […]<\/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-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","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=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}