Motel Radio "Garden" 2022-05-13 With so many competent tracks

With so many competent tracks

Lorde composed the songs on Melodrama in New Zealand

juxtaposing magnificent musical arrangements with lacerating lyrics and a heartrending delivery

a legion of devotees (including Kanye West) kept up an insistent drum-beat for their return

Motel Radio "Garden" 2022-05-13 With so many competent tracksWritten and recorded in the midst of a dizzying stretch in which nearly everything about the way the band lived and worked was turned on its head, The Garden is indeed a work of relentless hope. The songs are profoundly vulnerable here, and the performances are warm and breezy, calling to mind everything from Andy Shauf and Cass McCombs to Beck and Tame Impala with an easygoing demeanor that belies the deep emotional work underpinning them. Motel