{"id":9733,"date":"2014-12-02T16:02:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T16:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=9733"},"modified":"2014-12-02T16:02:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T16:02:06","slug":"the-rural-alberta-advantage-mended-with-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2014\/12\/02\/the-rural-alberta-advantage-mended-with-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rural Alberta Advantage \u2013 Mended With Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2014\/12\/02\/the-rural-alberta-advantage-mended-with-gold\/ruralalbertaadvantage-mendedwithgold\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9734\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9734\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/RuralAlbertaAdvantage-MendedWithGold.jpg\" alt=\"RuralAlbertaAdvantage-MendedWithGold\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a Rural Alberta Advantage album. As such, you can expect all the things they have come to be known for: hard guitar strums, cacophonous drums, ethereal backing vocals, lamenting lyrics.<!--more--> This has been their signature sound since their first release <i>Departings, <\/i>and not much has changed. The production has since become fuller, but the same elements are in place and haven\u2019t evolved.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on your feelings, this may or may not be a bad thing. In many ways <i>Mended With Gold <\/i>is an unexciting release; we\u2019ve heard all this from this band before. It\u2019s a pretty solid rehash of the things we\u2019ve heard from them before. Bookended by the tracks \u201cOur Love\u2026\u201d and \u201c\u2026On the Run,\u201d The RAA follow the same sort of style of songwriting\u2013 evidenced on a cursory glance with the song titles \u201cOn the Rocks,\u201d \u201cTerrified,\u201d \u201cRunners in the Night,\u201d \u201cTo Be Scared,\u201d \u201cAll We\u2019ve Ever Known.\u201d Love is hard and anxiety-inducing, as ever.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, if you like what you\u2019ve heard of the band, you\u2019re in for a treat here. A song like \u201cTerrified,\u201d follows the above template perfectly and is one of the band\u2019s finest. \u201cVulcan, AB\u201d takes a slight detour from the formula and is a welcome change of pace. With such a signature style, it\u2019s hard for a band such as this to do something that is new and engaging, without losing old listeners. This isn\u2019t the album that changes that. But that\u2019s not an entirely bad thing either. If this is the album that keeps us waiting for a change of pace, there could be a lot of worse things to be hearing. (Paper Bag Records,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paperbagrecords.com\/\">paperbagrecords.com<\/a>)<strong> <b>Devin King<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a Rural Alberta Advantage album. As such, you can expect all the things they have come to be known for: hard guitar strums, cacophonous drums, ethereal backing vocals, lamenting lyrics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733","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=9733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}