{"id":9605,"date":"2014-10-21T13:46:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T13:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=9605"},"modified":"2014-10-21T13:46:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T13:46:52","slug":"these-estates-the-dignity-of-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2014\/10\/21\/these-estates-the-dignity-of-man\/","title":{"rendered":"These Estates &#8211; The Dignity of Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2014\/10\/21\/these-estates-the-dignity-of-man\/a1792345025_10\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9606\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9606\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/a1792345025_10-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"a1792345025_10\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This debut full length from Regina\u2019s These Estates delivers a solid, free poured kick of \u201cbourbon rock.\u201d<!--more--> With a sound, and penchant for thoughtful, well crafted lyrics, that hearkens back to mid-90s political pondering Prairie pop punk, These Estates at once conjure a nostalgia for early Weakerthans, <i>K is for Catherine<\/i> era Bonaduces, and Painted Thin at their angriest. \u201cNothing quite like nostalgia,\u201d John Cameron even sings on \u201cStone Cold Summer,\u201d \u201cto make you feel a little bit older.\u201d From the opening \u201cWhen the Lovee Breaks\u201d to the singalong closer \u201cPay Me Some Attention,\u201d These Estates leave it all on the studio floor, hammering this earnest, at times endearingly sloppy, collection of ten tracks home in a manner which leaves the listener feeling both empowered and disarmingly helpless. (And the cover photo is just amazing). Word is there\u2019s a follow up LP to be released, though the band itself is on a hiatus. Winnipeg only played host to these boys a couple of times, so let\u2019s hope there\u2019s some sort of reunion brewing down the line. (Independent, <a href=\"theseestates.bandcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\">theseestates.bandcamp.com<\/a>) <b>Sheldon Birnie<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 This debut full length from Regina\u2019s These Estates delivers a solid, free poured kick of \u201cbourbon rock.\u201d<\/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":[831,1056],"class_list":["post-9605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-saskatchewan","tag-utn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605","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=9605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}