{"id":3855,"date":"2016-10-20T13:40:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T13:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-john-k-samson-winter-wheat\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T21:20:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T21:20:40","slug":"album-review-john-k-samson-winter-wheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-john-k-samson-winter-wheat\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review:\u00a0John K. Samson – Winter Wheat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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‘Winter Wheat’<\/i> is the baby of John K. Samson<\/b> from long-running Canadian indie-rockers The Weakerthans. It’s a thoughtful collection of songs that are coming to terms with the impact of modern life in all its forms and serves as a laid back slice of Americana-tinged indie introspection.<\/p>\n

Opening track, ‘Select All Delete’<\/i>, sets a deeply atmospheric tone for the record with a very spacious sound that ambles along like a stroll in spring time. The first line of “That hashtag wants me dead, but I don’t mind”<\/i> is immediately engaging and is a fair indication of the wry humour to the observational lyrical content.<\/p>\n

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The album is a pretty slow moving affair, with songs like the wistfully downbeat Americana of ‘Winter Wheat’<\/i>, the meandering acoustic melody of the lullaby smooth ‘Capital’<\/i> and the bleak tale of recovery that is ’17th Street Treatment Centre’<\/i>. It is, however, punctuated by more upbeat moments like the jaunty ‘VPW 13 Blues’<\/i>, the groovy tambourine shakes of ‘Fellow Traveler’<\/i> and ‘Postdoc Blues’<\/i>; the story of a disillusioned academic, just one of the many ordinary people lurking between the lines.<\/p>\n

The stand out moments come on the more electric tracks like the richly textured ‘Alpha Adept’<\/i> and the Neil Young-esque ‘Vampire Alberta Blues’<\/i>, with its flourishes of rich guitar licks that build to a bittersweet climax on an electrifying solo – killer track. The desolate spoken word ramblings of ‘Quiz Night at Looky Lou’s’<\/i> is also fairly intriguing, although its appeal is probably more limited.<\/p>\n

The album ambles to a melancholy close with the demise of Samson’s old feline friend on ‘Virtute at Rest<\/i>. It’s a fitting end to this comforting, yet downbeat, reflection on modern life.<\/p>\n

4\/5<\/p>\n

‘Winter Wheat’<\/em> by John K. Samson<\/strong> is released on October 21st on ANTI- Records<\/b>.<\/p>\n

John K. Samson<\/strong> links:Website<\/a>|Facebook<\/a>|Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by Edward Layland (@EdwardLayland<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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