Meet Lovegarden, a switching two-piece, acid-grunge band hailing from Cape City. After years of enjoying drums in varied bands, from Afrikaans pop to loss of life metallic, Jacques Olwage and Wiehahn Diederichs determined to select up their guitars and collectively they began a brand new journey of tonal experimentation.
This was again in 2015. Lovegarden was a secure area for the lifelong buddies to craft their very own sound, to feed their inside backyard so to talk.
It took them virtually seven years to start out releasing music, and now, 9 years on from their conception, they’ve given us their first album, Discover Your self.
Cast from sonic explorations, this stark and audacious debut encompasses a decade’s physique of labor, however what I discover extra poignant is probably the best way that this music turns into a time capsule of Olwage and Diederichs’ friendship.
In Lovegarden’s personal phrases, an idea of the nice self-discovery was one thing that closely influenced the album, or ‘Individuation’ as Oupa Jung preferred to name it.
With psychedelic tinges of fuzz-rock and grungy instrumental passages, Discover Your self communicates a distinctly South African sound. I can’t fairly put it into phrases, however there’s a singular model of psych-rock that has been popping out of Cape City for the final ten years or so, and if you already know you already know. Yndian Mynah, Dangerfields, extra not too long ago Sueños. The record goes on, and Lovegarden now be part of their ranks.
“Nice” stands out because the file’s most tender observe, with downcast electrical strumming and a choir of vocals that builds into existential atmosphere.
There’s rise and fall on this file; a journey via being. It begs to be listened to at midnight, or no less than that’s how I see it. Together with your eyes closed, strolling the gardens of this sonic panorama.
