The Garden Announce New Album & Share Lead Single

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If you’ve followed indie rock or punk music over the last 10 years, you’ve probably already heard of The Garden. The Orange County duo have churned out six spunky, energetic albums and there’s no stopping them now! The Garden have announced their new album, Horseshit on Route 66, due out September 8th. This news comes accompanied with the band’s lead single “Orange County Punk Rock Legend,” a single just as chaotic and experimental as anything that has come before, maybe even more!

The song “was written in the back of an old restaurant called Yang Ming” explains Wyatt, “I decided to write it after being slapped by the old cook.”

Recorded in Downtown Los Angeles, the record pulls from from the legacies of Southern California hardcore and UK punk, but continues to experiment with dissonant electronics and the drum & bass sound the duo is known for. Though plans to record in a ghost town and set up camp “somewhere haunted” were abandoned, that spirit is embodied in the record.

“A good chunk of the songs were inspired by the "scary stories" we read as kids and our interest in the supernatural,” says Wyatt. The duo also cite children's book illustrator Stephen Gammell as a major reference point, his drawings infused with the same underlying menace that their music evokes.

Listen to “Orange County Punk Rock Legend” below.