Garden of Love

Garden of Love formed first in 2022 under the name Jane Harms Love Triangle around songs written by Jane Harms, with Cole Woods of Laughing on drums. Now with Sony Cody (Body Break) taking up the bass guitar they continue to hone a distinctive sound that flutters across the genre map from folk rock to power pop to new wave with garage punk urgency, while remaining decidedly their own. Their intricate and lyrically dense songs are words of desire and caution to an endangered garden of decadent pleasures. It’s rosepunk for breadpunks. It’s a bit silly and a bit serious and a bit desperate and a bit ecstatic.

This band sounds like someone who has a pretty distorted understanding of what’s acceptable trying to write the most universally appealing music she knows how to, with a rhythm section of incredibly talented and similarly twisted fools. Or maybe like, if a drunken Genesis cover band tried to placate a dissatisfied punk audience with sped up Neil Young songs.