Winter Gardens – ‘Tapestry’
If you’re bored of waiting for My Bloody Valentine to release new music, or mourning the loss of Sonic Youth, there’s a new band from the south coast who might just fill that void. Winter Gardens impressed with last year’s single ‘Coral Bells’, and since then have been working hard on their fittingly-named first EP ‘Tapestry’, which arrives with four brand new tracks bursting with an ambitious and often beautiful creativity. On ‘Coral Bells’, the band blend a bright upbeat backing with softly swelling guitars and keyboards to create a punchy song with alluring depth. It’s a modern take on what the band describe as ‘dream-punk’, which the rest of us might recognise as a mixture of post-punk and shoegaze. Using this sound as a starting point, each song on the EP pushes into more expans...
