{"id":775,"date":"2013-01-06T19:38:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T08:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/woodandwire.com.au\/?p=775"},"modified":"2021-01-31T07:08:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T07:08:12","slug":"bok-darklord-in-unwashed-territoires-albums-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2013\/01\/06\/bok-darklord-in-unwashed-territoires-albums-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"BOK Darklord in Unwashed Territoires &#039;Albums Of The Year&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stuartbuchanan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BOK-Darklord.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10774\" src=\"http:\/\/stuartbuchanan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BOK-Darklord.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Wood And Wire BOK Darklord release &#8216;Lulu&#8217; has landed in <strong>Unwashed Territories<\/strong>&#8216; &#8216;Albums Of The Year&#8217; list, coming in at #3 in a list that also includes\u00a0<strong>Sun Araw <\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Godspeed You! Black Emperor<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><br \/>\nBlog author Mark Whitby championed the release on his UK-based Dandelion Radio show on its release, and the record clearly made an impression as he was pulling together his end-of-year list. \u00a0<!--more-->He notes:<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;BOK Darklord &#8211; a merging of the considerable creative juices of Lucas Darklord and Buttress O&#8217;Kneel &#8211; took on such a task and from it created one of the best, and most original, albums of 2012.\u00a0\u00a0 Via the simple but effective recource of simply taking a load of Metallica tracks, a load of Lou Reed tracks, and coarsely ramming them together, they recreated\u00a0Lulu, transforming it from a derided piece of crap into a visionary masterpiece.\u00a0The recording, in all its harsh glory, can be downloaded for nothing from Australia&#8217;s\u00a0Wood &amp; Wire label, a strong contender for label of the year.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nRead the full review at <a href=\"http:\/\/unwashedterritories.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/12\/best-albums-of-2012-3-bok-darklord.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unwashedterritories.blogspot.co.uk<\/a>, and while your there, check out Mark&#8217;s new three-volume compilation <em>Into The Light<\/em> &#8211; a benefit record for the\u00a0<strong>Free Pussy Riot<\/strong> campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wood And Wire BOK Darklord release &#8216;Lulu&#8217; has landed in Unwashed Territories&#8216; &#8216;Albums Of The Year&#8217; list, coming in at #3 in a list that also includes\u00a0Sun Araw and\u00a0Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Blog author Mark Whitby championed the release on his UK-based Dandelion Radio show on its release, and the record clearly made an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[451,1616],"tags":[581,1511,1549],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-weird-australia","category-wood-and-wire","tag-bok-darklord","tag-unwashed-territories","tag-wood-and-wire","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15503,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/15503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}