GARDENS

“intricately crafted…glistens with warmth and depth” DIY

"Their debut record offers a colossal level of promise for the development of their musical career, which will definitely be worth keeping an eye on." Far Out Magazine 

“Dreamy hazy deliciousness.” Backseat Mafia

"a mix of warm, glistening compositions balanced with introspective depth" Babystep

Out today via Siluh Records, Viennese Dream-Pop Quartet GARDENS share debut album 'Flaws'.

Winning UK press backing this year from DORK, DIY, Far Out, Backseat Mafia, Wax Music and Post-Brexit Pop, and confirming a slot at Gronigen showcase festival Eurosonic next January, Flaws is a record of intricate, deceptively simple arrangements defined by the heart-on-sleeve confessionalism of lead vocalist/songwriter Luca Celina Müller (She/her)  Level-headed and assured, GARDENS filter the sublime out of the messiness as Luca’s lyric centres around a therapeutic process of arduous self-discovery; of getting all her thoughts out onto the page and using that as a springboard acceptance, healing and personal growth.

And naming your debut album Flaws is a frank admission of fresh scars still in the process of healing, right beneath a diamond-flickering surface.  “It’s like writing a diary” Luca says, “Or just writing your thoughts down. That's what everybody tells you; it's what therapists have told me. Just write it down, so it gets out of your head and onto paper. And I think that's what happened with these songs: manically writing lyrics when I was riding the metro, and afterward already feeling lighter because it got a new space. So it doesn't have to live inside my head anymore

Austria is a place of high-altitudes and fittingly, the superb songwriting and musicianship of GARDENS sits at a bird’s eye view, embracing change with uncanny clarity, warmth and self-awareness. But their music is also laced with an acceptance and unravelling of life’s darker currents. 

Beneath the elementary but deceptively intricate arrangements, Luca’s savvy songwriting instincts chronicle trials of mental health, the rites of passage of youth and the dizzying fogs of heartbreak, channelling the confrontational confessions of the likes of Courtney Barnett and Julia Jacklin.

 Meeting in Vienna the quartet of Luca Celine Müller,  Peter Benedikt Mathis, Patrick Stieger and Laura Keiblinger gained notoriety through their first two singles  ‘Talk’ and ‘Waves’ – the latter getting extensive airplay at Austria’s popular station Radio FM4 –  and firmly established their lush blend of indie pop, 60s psych folk and dream pop.