Grumpy
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Heaven Schmitt, the front person of Grumpy, keeps their friends close and their exes closer. The keyboardist and bassist are Heaven’s ex girlfriends, and the drummer is their ex-husband (the guitar player and Heaven never dated but there was one night when Heaven thought they might kiss but they didn’t). The deep intimacy shared between the band’s members might explain the tantalizing sense of desire that echoes from song to song in Grumpy's growing catalog, and Heaven’s live band of exes also speaks to the way the Grumpy project is built on balancing beauty and ugliness, pleasure and pain, and recognizing that you can find truth and healing even in life’s most brutal moments.
While based in Nashville, Schmitt released their debut LP Loser in 2020. In 2022, they moved to NYC and transformed the project, leveling up adjacent to a buzzy corner of the Brooklyn scene. Their EP Wolfed, released in 2024 on Bayonet Records, is a steamy, goofy & introspective collection of songs - a healthy mix of former folk influences with new elements of hyperpop. Wolfed is vulnerable, amusing, and cartoonishly dramatic at the same time - Grumpy has emerged from a period of turbulence with a stronger stride
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