{"id":929,"date":"2010-08-16T09:51:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T16:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=929"},"modified":"2010-08-16T09:51:53","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T16:51:53","slug":"sarah-harmer-oh-little-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/sarah-harmer-oh-little-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"SARAH HARMER + Oh Little Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Oh-Little-Fire-M-Review-June2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-930\" title=\"Oh-Little-Fire-M-Review-June2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Oh-Little-Fire-M-Review-June2010.jpg\" alt=\"Oh Little Fire\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Oh-Little-Fire-M-Review-June2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Oh-Little-Fire-M-Review-June2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>S<\/strong><strong>ARAH HARMER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Oh Little Fire<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Zoe\/Rounder]<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Sarah Harmer\u2019s fifth album offers her most engaging effort since her days in the 1990s group Weeping Tile. While her last offering, 2005\u2019s <em>I\u2019m a Mountain<\/em>, included intimate observations from an eco expedition through Southern Ontario\u2019s Niagara Escarpment, the new record has her lightening her load with subjects less dire and more inclusive. By finding footing in cheerier realms, Harmer sounds more assured and less constrained on <em>Oh Little Fire<\/em>. From the initial surge of \u201cThe Thief\u201d to the kinetic pulse of \u201cThe City,\u201d it moves at a casual clip, crossing the transom with a sense of blissful satisfaction echoed in songs such as \u201cOn Match\u201d and \u201cCareless.\u201d \u201cSilverado\u201d dips one toe into country, while \u201cNew Loneliness\u201d and \u201cIt Will Sail\u201d drift along with dewy-eyed reflection. <em>Oh Little Fire<\/em> is a slow burn, subtly suggesting that Harmer\u2019s days of introspection may be producing a growing sense of optimism.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Lee Zimmerman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SARAH HARMER Oh Little Fire [Zoe\/Rounder] Canadian Sarah Harmer\u2019s fifth album offers her most engaging effort since her days in the 1990s group Weeping Tile. While her last offering, 2005\u2019s I\u2019m a Mountain, included intimate observations from an eco expedition through Southern Ontario\u2019s Niagara Escarpment, the new record has her lightening her load with subjects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,80,535,534,536],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}