{"id":974,"date":"2010-06-03T08:36:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T14:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=974"},"modified":"2010-06-03T08:36:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T14:36:09","slug":"review-canteen-knockout-broken-down-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/06\/03\/review-canteen-knockout-broken-down-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Canteen Knockout &#8211; Broken Down Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/canteen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-975\" title=\"canteen\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/canteen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>This album is the sort of country that I think anyone can enjoy, given that they\u2019re not a snobby curmudgeon. Tonally, it\u2019s extremely pleasant, with all the trappings of a true country album. What I mean by that is that the family of country these guys belong to lost any common ancestry with Taylor Swift and the like about 40 years ago. They all play instruments (and well!), and the twang isn\u2019t just a superficial wrapping for some cheesy pop music. These fellas country like Hank Williams was still kickin\u2019 around, and do a damn good job of it too. As with most country in this vein, there\u2019s not a whole lot in the way of original songwriting\u2014the songs seem immediately familiar (and I have only a passing knowledge of country music) but it doesn\u2019t detract from the album as long as you don\u2019t expect some sort of futuristic avant-country. Also, I love the lyrics on this album. A single reference to \u201c&#8230;feelin\u2019 like a turd\u201d won me over immediately, and if it doesn\u2019t sell you too, I don\u2019t think we should hang out. They have an awesome sense of humour, an excellent sense of musicality, and they\u2019re Canadian to boot. (Weewerk, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weewerk.com\">www.weewerk.com<\/a>) <strong>David Nowacki<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This album is the sort of country that I think anyone can enjoy, given that they\u2019re not a snobby curmudgeon. Tonally, it\u2019s extremely pleasant, with all the trappings of a true country album. What I mean by that is that the family of country these guys belong to lost any common ancestry with Taylor Swift [&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-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","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=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}