{"id":9803,"date":"2015-01-06T15:44:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T15:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=9803"},"modified":"2015-01-06T15:44:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T15:44:45","slug":"energy-slime-new-dimensional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2015\/01\/06\/energy-slime-new-dimensional\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Slime &#8211; New Dimensional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MUS_LocalDiscs2_2445.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9804\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MUS_LocalDiscs2_2445-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"MUS_LocalDiscs2_2445\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More than just a great band name \u2013 and it really is a phenomenal one \u2013 Vancouver duo Energy Slime have some serious songwriting chops.<!--more--> On <i>New Dimensional<\/i>, Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle have crafted ten sleepy, dreamy pop songs, absolutely drenched in reverb, delay, fuzz, phasers and other elements of digital psychedelia. At its best, on tracks like \u201cStar on the Ground\u201d and especially the dubby \u201cCool Ship II,\u201d the heavy use of effects improves already-solid tunes into spaced-out moonshots. There is, however, a downside to the over-reliance on sound manipulation. In some cases, it just sounds forced \u2013 effects for effects\u2019 sake \u2013 and actually detracts from Arner and Delisle\u2019s clear talents. It\u2019s almost like the musical equivalent of a perfectly fine photograph overloaded with unnecessary Instagram filters. On the whole, though, the effects give <i>New Dimensional<\/i>\u2019s songs a very welcome psychedelic edge, and the songs tend to run on the brief side (all ten songs go by in an incredible 13 minutes) so even the duds are easily palatable. (Mint Records, <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/energyslime\">facebook.com\/energyslime<\/a>) <b>Sam Thompson<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; More than just a great band name \u2013 and it really is a phenomenal one \u2013 Vancouver duo Energy Slime have some serious songwriting chops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1056],"class_list":["post-9803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-utn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9803","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}