Garden
“Auditory invaders of the new world” - The Guardian
“The Garden defy any effort to slot them into a pre-existing genre” - NME
“They punch you in the face with everything they do” - Dazed & Confused
“They blow our minds and our speakers………. we’re obsessed” - i-D
Once again leaving genre boundaries in the dust, The Garden twins return with Mirror Might Steal Your Charm, out now via Epitaph Records. Taking the audience away into a still unfathomed sound world and bringing back some of the scuzzier elements of their earlier work, the duo’s more guitar focused third album is another sublime slice of post-modern pop. Welcome back to a land that’s familiar, slightly out of sync, and a little bit unnerving.
Wyatt and Fletcher Shears (24) have been conceptualizing their own style since well before the formation of the band in 2011. Described as auditory invaders of the new world; borderless, informed and decentralized, the duo represent a youthful punk scene in California with their DIY principles, thrift store-cum-glam fashion style and a vast list of influences. While 2013’s Life And Times Of A Paperclip offered a glimpse into their breakbeat-propelled world of electro-punk anarchy, it was their innovative Epitaph debut Haha (2015) that proved them to be much more than style over substance, sadistically teasing all essences of musical genres into 17 wonderfully chaotic tracks.
Mirror Might Steal Your Charm was self-produced and recorded in a lockout studio in one short burst. "I think it’s healthy as an artist to switch up your environment once in a while. The production is tight as a whistle, but also more raw” offers Wyatt. "The process made for a more focused and personal sounding record, with a healthy dose of guitar throughout. Things are a little more refined. If we aren’t implementing past experience into new situations then we aren’t learning. Progress is very appealing to us,” adds Fletcher. Abrasive yet slick album opener “Stallion” wastes no time kicking things off, while the innocent message of “Make A Wish” is nicely juxtaposed by a hard-hitting and menacing soundtrack. The band declare ‘Shameless Shadow’ as a definite shapeshifter. “The song never stops and is almost reminiscent to a musical of some sort. The message behind it reads "Why waste your time when you have all the tools you need in front of you?” “Call The Dogs Out” is classic Garden, its minimalist two-piece bass and drums and jumping time signatures causing mayhem amidst a cacophony or barks. Elsewhere “Stylish Spit” effortlessly blends bombastic beats with a menacing western guitar riff and first single “No Destination”’s twinkly piano melody offers dreamy respite from the song's serious undertone.
The Garden strip off everything unnecessary about modern punk and get straight to the heart of it, consistently defying categorization and breaking new ground with their own ‘Vada Vada’ philosophy, an idea that represents pure creative expression, disregarding all previously made genres and ideals. This is outsider music made from the inside, and when the multitude of sounds collide at pace, the results are spectacular.
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RIYL: Cosmonauts, Fidlar, Tijuana Panthers, Cherry Glazerr
TRY: #1, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12
DIRTY: #2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
(Clean edits of #2, 8, 9 & radio edit of #12 included in download folder)
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