{"id":8172,"date":"2013-12-12T16:46:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T16:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=8172"},"modified":"2013-12-12T16:46:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T16:46:23","slug":"slow-leaves-second-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/12\/12\/slow-leaves-second-chances\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Leaves \u2013 Second Chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2013\/12\/12\/slow-leaves-second-chances\/gi_150641_slowleavescoverweb\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8173\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8173\" alt=\"gI_150641_SlowLeavesCoverWeb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/gI_150641_SlowLeavesCoverWeb.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s worth telling the story of how this Slow Leaves EP came to exist, because it&#8217;s a lesson in what good can happen if you just ask the right question to the right person.<!--more--> Local roots songwriter Grant Davidson hit up Rusty Matyas of Imaginary Cities, basically saying, \u201cHey, I like the production on your band\u2019s record so am wondering if you might want to be involved in making my next one.\u201d A quick meeting seems to have been pretty much all it took, as Davidson\u2019s thoughtful songs and Matyas\u2019 polished studio chops quickly conceived a musical lovechild. The opening track, \u201cLife of a Better Man,\u201d is the highlight here. It&#8217;s a solid song with a shuffling beat that fits well with Davidson\u2019s words, which cleverly reimagine some well-worn cliches in a novel enough way for listeners to be reminded that sometimes truisms really are profound when examined from a slightly different angle\u2014while sometimes they deserve to be pulled inside out and left that way. There was a video cut for this song too, easily available online if you care to check it out. The other two songs are similarly appealing, which makes <em>Second Chances<\/em> a great way to whet your whistle while awaiting the release of <em>Beauty Is So Common<\/em>, a full-length album that sprouted from the same sessions. (Independent, <a href=\"http:\/\/slowleaves.com\/\">slowleaves.com\/<\/a>) <strong>Daniel Emberg<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s worth telling the story of how this Slow Leaves EP came to exist, because it&#8217;s a lesson in what good can happen if you just ask the right question to the right person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[563],"class_list":["post-8172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}