"inch below the surface, universal truths..."
It figures that a song named "Relapse" (by London's indie rock post punk outfit Gardening) would feel like a emotional rollercoaster. There is something about the hushed inner vox at the beginning and the interwoven energy, quite beautiful but tense at the same time like the kind of stomach ache you have on a first date. The splashing drums, the chunky 80's new wave adornments, the bell tones and the bits of musical nods to jangle and twee pop keep the tensions at bay but you can feel them throughout even if the song will make you want to smile and dance. When the song feels like a bull whip and gets forefront guitar heavy and the songs pull back it feels like whatever is ailing the author, the one spilling his guts doesn't matter because you might as well be happy (for the moment anyway)
Gardening are Niall Rush (vocals, guitars) | Adam Smith (guitars, vocals) | Olivia Horrox (drums, percussion) | Mikey Burton (bass, vocals).
Of "Relapse" singer-songwriter Niall shares:
"I was thinking about how we often confuse being apart from the circumstances of certain feelings and anxieties with actually moving on from them. We believe we've grown, but once we're back in the same environments, everything rushes back with a vengeance. I've had times in my life where this realization has wrecked me for weeks and totally punctured my self-image, but the details of those examples are no fun, so here we've got someone having a total meltdown in an adult's soft play centre in some echo of a farcical childhood crisis."
The older you get the more you realize that everything behind you never goes away. You just drag it along and have to get used to accepting and sort of embracing it all as lessons learned.
The older you get the more you realize that everything behind you never goes away. You just drag it along and have to get used to accepting and sort of embracing it all as lessons learned.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/wearegardening
https://soundcloud.com/wearegardening
https://twitter.com/wearegardening
https://wearegardening.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/wearegardening/
https://books.apple.com/gb/author/gardening/id1445183765
Formed over the internet in 2019, Gardening initially bonded over their love of the American indie canon - Built to Spill, Pavement, Television... Their carefully crafted sound collides duelling guitar lines, wild dynamic shifts and melodic intensity. Releasing their debut EP 'Magpie' in 2020, lockdown didn't stop their tracks getting airplay from Steve Lamacq, John Kennedy and the late, great Janice Long.
Gardening have since signed to the venerable Fierce Panda Records and are kicking off with their new single '1977', a taut six-minute-long slow motion detonation of guitars characteristic of their increasingly intense live show. The track follows the failure of a deeply repressed character at a time where queer life still felt truly underground in a narrative about rising shame and panic.
From the 1977 press release by Fierce Panda: "...Such is intelligent, instinctive life with Gardening, where power-popping precision is everything, although not without its surprising diversions. Forming in 2019 via website ads, they accidentally became a meta-covid-generation outfit: "Because we never knew each other before the band started, we actually got a lot closer during the pandemic when we swapped out weekday rehearsals for calls, and became something of a support network for each other, which in a way I think has helped us play better together now.
"The thing that really distinguished the early stages was the fact that we always thought we'd get another person to be the singer before I realised no one we auditioned really knew what to do with the music I was writing," blushes Niall, "so I extremely reluctantly got over myself and gave it a proper go, with some (almost) gentle encouragement from the rest of the band. The odd consequence of that is a lot of our songs are some of the first songs I've ever written (so hopefully some indication that we'll continue to improve...)."
Wise words to go with the whipsmart music. Go dig the Gardening scene..."
** At this particular time we find ourselves in a financial pinch due to many factors. We want to keep AP going. It has been a passion project for over 13 years. PLEASE consider donating, we could really use the support. Thanks so much
We get by with a little help from our friends
Gardening, indie rock, post punk, jangle pop, prog rock, art rock, new wave, London, "Relapse", chunky guitars, poetic punches, emotional aches,
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/wearegardening
https://soundcloud.com/wearegardening
https://twitter.com/wearegardening
https://wearegardening.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/wearegardening/
https://books.apple.com/gb/author/gardening/id1445183765
Formed over the internet in 2019, Gardening initially bonded over their love of the American indie canon - Built to Spill, Pavement, Television... Their carefully crafted sound collides duelling guitar lines, wild dynamic shifts and melodic intensity. Releasing their debut EP 'Magpie' in 2020, lockdown didn't stop their tracks getting airplay from Steve Lamacq, John Kennedy and the late, great Janice Long.
Gardening have since signed to the venerable Fierce Panda Records and are kicking off with their new single '1977', a taut six-minute-long slow motion detonation of guitars characteristic of their increasingly intense live show. The track follows the failure of a deeply repressed character at a time where queer life still felt truly underground in a narrative about rising shame and panic.
From the 1977 press release by Fierce Panda: "...Such is intelligent, instinctive life with Gardening, where power-popping precision is everything, although not without its surprising diversions. Forming in 2019 via website ads, they accidentally became a meta-covid-generation outfit: "Because we never knew each other before the band started, we actually got a lot closer during the pandemic when we swapped out weekday rehearsals for calls, and became something of a support network for each other, which in a way I think has helped us play better together now.
"The thing that really distinguished the early stages was the fact that we always thought we'd get another person to be the singer before I realised no one we auditioned really knew what to do with the music I was writing," blushes Niall, "so I extremely reluctantly got over myself and gave it a proper go, with some (almost) gentle encouragement from the rest of the band. The odd consequence of that is a lot of our songs are some of the first songs I've ever written (so hopefully some indication that we'll continue to improve...)."
Wise words to go with the whipsmart music. Go dig the Gardening scene..."
** At this particular time we find ourselves in a financial pinch due to many factors. We want to keep AP going. It has been a passion project for over 13 years. PLEASE consider donating, we could really use the support. Thanks so much
We get by with a little help from our friends
Gardening, indie rock, post punk, jangle pop, prog rock, art rock, new wave, London, "Relapse", chunky guitars, poetic punches, emotional aches,
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