{"id":39999,"date":"2015-12-01T00:26:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T06:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=39999"},"modified":"2015-12-17T17:52:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T23:52:24","slug":"made-of-oak-penumbra-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2015\/12\/01\/made-of-oak-penumbra-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Made of Oak: Penumbra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-40000\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/penumbra-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"penumbra\" width=\"263\" height=\"263\" \/><\/strong>Made of Oak has a sound that those of you in tune with indie pop may recognize. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Penumbra<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the first solo release from one half of Sylvan Esso, producer Nick Sanborn. The EP was released in early November on Partisan Records, a Brooklyn based label. It\u2019s a small taste of the more ethereal and glitchy side of Sanborn\u2019s production style. Without the harmonic staccato of Amelia Meath\u2019s voice Sanborn has more room to stretch and twist his beats. That\u2019s not to say Sylvan Esso\u2019s style doesn\u2019t let Sanborn\u2019s instrumentals breath, only that he has less of an obligation to keep things tangible and can really alter his sound.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This EP is sonically diverse, with tracks like single \u201cPinebender\u201d reminding the listener of the heavy, consistent bass and catchy offbeats of Sylvan Esso, while tracks like \u201cPenultra (When I See You)\u201d pull acoustic sounds out of static and found sounds. \u00a0One of the most beautiful features of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Penumbra<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is that use of found sounds \u2013 Sanborn samples his own breath in most of the tracks, as well as what seems to be typewriter keys in the title track, and intelligible conversation in \u201cPenultra (When I See You).&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overall, a solid release with moments of true beauty. It\u2019ll be exciting to see where else Nick Sanborn goes following the success of Sylvan Esso as well as the growing success of Made Of Oak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended If You Like: Sylvan Esso, Hundred Waters, Son Lux, Battles, Mount Kimbie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended Tracks: Pinebender (2), Blue Zipper (5)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do Not Play: None<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by Kayci Lineberger on 11\/26\/15<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small taste of the ethereal, glitchy side of Sylvan Esso producer Nick Sanborn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1637,"featured_media":40000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,4,3235,3230],"tags":[2732,3873,4043,4044,3069],"class_list":["post-39999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hopelectronic-rotation","category-music","category-music-reviews","category-new-music-rotation","tag-kayci-lineberger","tag-made-of-oak","tag-nick-sanborn","tag-penumbra","tag-sylvan-esso"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/penumbra-e1448583369250.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39999","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\/1637"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}