gglum - The Garden Dream *Pre Order

Release Date Friday 29th March 2024
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

gglum - The Garden Dream

 As she’s got older, Ella Smoker has found that her subconscious hasbeen trying to tell her “some pretty wacky stuff.” Thoughts will come tothe 21-year-old singer-songwriter in dreams, or as she writes lyrics instudio sessions, words floating onto the page before she’s really hada moment to realise what they are. “As soon as we start making themusic, my brain sort of turns off,” she explains. “I’ll be sitting there,writing all this stuff that feels like a load of nonsense, and a monthlater, I’ll look back and be like ‘oh.’ It all comes from a place I didn’teven realise was there.”

 In learning how to open up to herself, gglum ended up finding akindred spirit in producer Karma Kid (Maisie Peters, Shygirl, ConnieConstance), pushing past her natural bedroom-pop introversion tofind joy in the process of collaboration. Whether it’s the ragged radiorock of ‘SPLAT!’ (“basically about realising that somebody you heldup very highly is actually just a massive shambles of a person”) or theriotous, industrial energy of ‘Easy Fun’, Smoker is able to reshape hervocal around the mood, creating a record which expertly balanceslight and shade.

 “I’ve never really done anything in like that vocal style before,”shesays of ‘Easy Fun’s near-spoken delivery. “I love that song becauseit’s not something I would have come up with on my own, but KarmaKid was great at pushing me out of my comfort zone. I just thoughtlike, ‘look: I can be a little silly with this.’”

 The release of ‘The Garden Dream’ will offer gglum plenty moreopportunity to get both silly and serious, to be bold in her explorationof new ideas and sounds. But it will also offer the opportunity tofurther accept herself as the dreamlike artist she always wanted tobe; confidently embellishing acoustic worlds that her listeners canburrow safely within.

 “I feel like I naturally gravitate towards wanting to make musicalspaces that you can feel like you’re living in, rather than trying tomake songs,” she says. “That’s something I really wanted to solidifywith this album: I basically want to make music that feels like whenyou’re looking out the window and it’s the end of the film and you’reimagining what comes next. That’s the sound of what I want to bedoing.”

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