THE GARDEN STREAM NEW TRACK ‘CLOAK’ TO MARK THE START OF THEIR EUROPEAN TOUR
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ORANGE COUNTRY TWINS WYATT AND FLETCHER SHEARS BRING THEIR ELECTRO-PUNK ANARCHY TO THE UK, STARTING AT BEACONS FESTIVAL THIS SUNDAY BEFORE EMBARKING ON FURTHER SHOWS IN GLASGOW, MANCHESTER, LONDON, BIRMINGHAM & BRIGHTON
STREAM BRAND NEW TRACK ‘CLOAK’:
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“Most intriguing men on the planet... great lo-fi, gothy garage-punk” Noisey
“Visionary and forward thinking” iD
“A rabid, breakbeat-propelled supernova” NME
The Garden’s shows are experiential, as powerful and philosophically confounding as they are glib and tricksy. There never is any time for explanations, only a sense of urgency and a rapid spiral into their parallel world. To be seduced and ensnared by mirror-image raconteurs, operating an addictive carnival ride of sound and movement that stops as abruptly as it starts, is a close approximation of The Garden experience.
Established in in 2011 by twin brothers Wyatt and Fletcher Shears, the band consistently defies categorisation and continues to break ground in their self inflicted ‘Vada Vada’ genre. They are the auditory invaders of the new world; borderless, informed and decentralised, slick sound released from constraint and old ideologies.
The twins draw inspiration from a background in punk classicism but remain unfettered and unselfconscious enough to infuse elements of 90s hip hop and big beat electronica. The Garden is the intellectual refute to critics of the post modern, pantheistic generation of music listener with an equal dose of punk irreverence and undistilled fury.
Their two-piece bass and drums essence is dirty, raw and very immediate but equally nuanced with echoes of the hive mind of the Vadaverse, the ephemeral architecture that exists both inside and outside of the duo that the listener enters and never quite escapes. Together the twins are an acidic concoction; unstable, sexy and probably toxic.
The duo bring their constantly evolving, conceptual punk to the capital on August 14th, playing The Dentist on Chatsworth Road. They are also models and famed fashion photographer Hedi Slimane recently shot them for Yves Saint Laurent.
European Dates
7th August - Stay Out West Festival, Gothenburg Denmark
9th August - Wasn’t Born to Follow, Copenhagen Denmark
10th August - Beacons Festival, Skipton (Noisey Stage)
11th August - Broadcast, Glasgow
12th August - The Castle, Manchester
15th August - Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham
16th August - The Hope, Brighton
17th August - Pont Ephemere