GARDENS

“intricately crafted…glistens with warmth and depth” DIY

“Big Indie” Far Out Magazine 

“Dreamy hazy deliciousness.” Backseat Mafia

Ahead of the release of debut album Flaws  - due  1st November via Austrian indie label Siluh Records - Viennese quartet GARDENS share surging dream-pop cut ‘Shift’.

Following on from the release of the album’s title track back in August - to early support in the UK from DIY, Far Out, Backseat Mafia, Wax Music and Post Brexit-Pop - ‘Shift’ adds an extra jolt of restlessness to their woozy surf-psych strides.

 Forging ahead with insistent, driving rhythms - familiar to fans of The War On Drugs or Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever  - remaining at the forefront is the heart-on-sleeve confessionalism of lead vocalist/songwriter Luca Celina Müller. 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: 

Discussing the track, the band say: “The song is brandishing the amorous wail of Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac – is an exorcism of stinging words spoken years ago, with Luca arriving as a more reassured individual on the other side.”

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.

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.”

 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.