{"id":38104,"date":"2015-10-08T03:04:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T08:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=38104"},"modified":"2015-12-23T04:13:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T10:13:46","slug":"mammoth-life-baycation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2015\/10\/08\/mammoth-life-baycation\/","title":{"rendered":"Mammoth Life: Baycation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/rsz_baycation_ep.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-38105\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/rsz_baycation_ep.jpg\" alt=\"rsz_baycation_ep\" width=\"275\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/rsz_baycation_ep.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/rsz_baycation_ep-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/rsz_baycation_ep-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a>Born in Lawrence, Mammoth Life can be identified as indie-rock, pop \u2018n roll, dream-pop, or d) all of the above. Started by Kix Mead and Gibby Paul in 2005, the band spent five years in Lawrence before relocating to their current home of San Francisco, hence the title of their new five-song EP <em>Baycation. <\/em>After a fruitful stay in the Sunflower State and an opening performance for Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros at Jackpot in 2009, the duo sold their gear and went west after the other two members in the project left the band in the midst of a two-month tour in 2010. They assembled a new quartet upon their arrival with bassist Heidi Weber and drummer Dan Staublin. According to Paul, <em>Baycation <\/em>encapsulates the permanent vacation lifestyle to be had in California.<\/p>\n<p>The EP begins with the track \u201cSaturday In The City,\u201d the quintessential soundtrack to a Bay Bridge afternoon car ride. This track is an edgier side of Mammoth Life coming to fruition as opposed to the previous trademark spacious, bedroom pop sounds found on <em>Kaleidoscope Art Pop <\/em>and their 2013 self-titled full length. One of the tracks on the EP that best showcases Mead\u2019s vocal prowess is \u201cSomething In Between.\u201d She sings \u201cnothing comes easy and nothing\u2019s for free \/ but you have the drive to see what it is \/ and what you can be.\u201d A track surely in the same vein as the geographical evolution the band experienced but also a testament to the leaps of faith that must be taken to realize your dreams.<\/p>\n<p>The title track, \u201cBaycation,\u201d is sweet, punchy\u00a0and, inevitably, the single\u2014the track that comes to mind when reminiscing over the beach-hallucination-filled listens of <em>Baycation, <\/em>founded upon a lifestyle of which many Midwesterners are unfamiliar. The brief <em>Baycation <\/em>EP is not of mammoth proportions but it won\u2019t disappear after the first time you listen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended If You Like: Beach House, Dum Dum Girls, Mates of State<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended Tracks: 3 (Something In Between), 4 (Baycation), 1 (Saturday In The City)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do Not Play: 2 (Lights Out)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by Harrison Hipp on 10\/08\/15<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in Lawrence, Mammoth Life can be identified as indie-rock, pop \u2018n roll, dream-pop, or d) all of the above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1602,"featured_media":38105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,4,3235,3230,181],"tags":[3713,2639,3712],"class_list":["post-38104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-music","category-music","category-music-reviews","category-new-music-rotation","category-rock-rotation","tag-baycation","tag-harrison-hipp","tag-mammoth-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/rsz_baycation_ep.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}