{"id":25280,"date":"2018-08-15T12:30:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T16:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/?p=25280"},"modified":"2018-08-14T18:11:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T22:11:04","slug":"playing-detroit-shady-groves-backflips-quiet-wolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/playing-detroit-shady-groves-backflips-quiet-wolf\/","title":{"rendered":"PLAYING DETROIT: Shady Groves Release Dreamy New Singles Ahead of Hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shady Groves &#8211; the culmination of Detroit songwriters Adam Fitzgerald, Dylan Caron, Jeff Yateman, Jamie Dulin, Colt Caron, and Sage Denam &#8211; recently released two singles from their upcoming record, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dreamboat, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and both are worthy predecessors for an album with a title that hints at serenity. \u201cQuiet Wolf\u201d and \u201cBackflips\u201d stand on their own as separate entities &#8211; perhaps even representative of different genres, due in large part to the fact that each member of Shady Groves has a hand in composing songs, and each bring disparate styles to the table.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBackflips\u201d offers a fusion of shoegaze, funk, and electronic elements that join effortlessly to create an ambiance of nonchalance. The mantra of the song (\u201cback and forth, knowing it doesn\u2019t matter\u201d)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> isn&#8217;t specific; Fitzgerald (on vocals) could be referring to love, inner turmoil, the actual act of making music &#8211; any number of things, really. The lulling synths and hooky beat settle into a casual, unbothered rhythm befitting the song&#8217;s terse themes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/474337161&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cQuiet Wolf\u201d taps into a different side of the band, with Caron\u2019s vocals vulnerably recounting a journey down a path of self-destruction: \u201cI want to clench my fist so fucking tight \/ Around that bottle of gin all day and night \/ I\u2019ve been through this before.\u201d Whether it\u2019s a coping mechanism for a broken heart or a boomerang of a behavior pattern, the song accurately wraps the feeling of desperation and dependence into a tiny bow and presents it to the listener with a subtle emotional wallop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/473670501&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of the musicians in the band also release music under their own solo projects, and Caron&#8217;s latest also happens to bear the name <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/biz\/Quiet-Wolf-1053540398155231\/\">Quiet Wolf<\/a> (Yateman performs as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jemmihazeman\/\">Jemmi Hazeman<\/a> both with and without the Honey Riders; Fitzgerald makes solo work under the name <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Quells-1758128240945493\/?fref=mentions\">Quells<\/a>). There&#8217;s no doubt the band is going places, both figuratively and literally &#8211; Fitzgerald is plotting a big move to Edinburgh, Scotland, though the band plans to continue writing music together from their home base in Detroit, even across the Atlantic. Keep an eye out for <em>Dreamboat<\/em>, which should see release sometime in the fall before the band goes on its official hiatus.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shady Groves &#8211; the culmination of Detroit songwriters Adam Fitzgerald, Dylan Caron, Jeff Yateman, Jamie Dulin, Colt Caron, and Sage Denam &#8211; recently released two singles from their upcoming record, Dreamboat, and both are worthy predecessors for an album with a title that hints at serenity. \u201cQuiet Wolf\u201d and \u201cBackflips\u201d stand on their own as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":25301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6732,4392],"tags":[3732,651,8021,8020,8016,3999,989,8022],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/shadygroves.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25302,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25280\/revisions\/25302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}