{"id":14206,"date":"2018-03-10T09:47:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T14:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=14206"},"modified":"2018-03-10T09:49:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T14:49:32","slug":"ep-review-arden-and-the-wolves-who-can-you-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/10\/ep-review-arden-and-the-wolves-who-can-you-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"EP Review: Arden and the Wolves \u2013 Who Can You Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14207\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/arden_wolves.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/arden_wolves.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/arden_wolves-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/arden_wolves-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>If one digs deep into the music on Arden and the Wolves&#8217; <i>Who Can You Trust<\/i>, a clear occult undercurrent reveals itself. That&#8217;s certainly a somewhat unconventional perspective to take, but the fact is that most everything else about this five-song EP released in January 2018 is quite accessible and (in a good way) mainstream rock.<\/p>\n<p>Vocalist Arden Leigh has a strong set of pipes, and she delivers her lyrics ins an assured (yet never overwrought or needlessly theatrical) manner. The tunes are sturdy, hooky and memorable, and Leigh&#8217;s instrumental support \u2013 guitarist Marko Jankovic, bassist Rick Brandt and drummer Nick Mason (no, not Pink Floyd&#8217;s percussionist) \u2013 is rock-solid as well.<\/p>\n<p>Leigh has things on her mind: in this #metoo era, sentiments like \u201cI&#8217;m not your bitch \/ I&#8217;m not your muse \/ I&#8217;m not a secret you can keep\u201d (from \u201cAnother Year of Rain\u201d) resonate in a way they might not have even a mere year ago. Her perspective that she (and by extension all women) must be accepted and treated as men&#8217;s equals is a message that deserves to be communicated and received. That it&#8217;s done within the context of an alluring rock tune is all the better.<\/p>\n<p><i>Who Can You Trust<\/i> is the third EP from the Los Angeles-based group, and its previous releases \u2013 2012&#8217;s <i>Break Me In<\/i> and <i>It Looks Like Trouble<\/i> from 2014 \u2013 offer more along the same musical and lyrical lines. But <i>Who Can You Trust<\/i> is the most fully-developed collection of songs from Arden Leigh and her band mates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If one digs deep into the music on Arden and the Wolves&#8217; Who Can You Trust, a clear occult undercurrent reveals itself. That&#8217;s certainly a somewhat unconventional perspective to take, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,49,62,65],"tags":[3351],"class_list":["post-14206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-arden-and-the-wolves","cat-39-id","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14208,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206\/revisions\/14208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}