Ioan Hazell
Journalist, musician, and poet with a passion for storytelling in all its myriad forms.
Interested in the stories, people, and art at the fringes. If it’s weird, count me in.
South London’s ethereal indie folk group Siblings unveil hypnotic new single ‘The Garden’
‘The Garden’ is a song which begins as it ends: with the balmy, richly textured drums that underpin this meditatively wandering track. Between its percussive bookends though, we are taken on a journey that feels not so much physical as spiritual, a journey where the inner and outer worlds become constituents of the same landscape. All the while, the pleasantly repetitive refrain of an upright piano serves as an anchor, centering us in this song’s immersive depths.
Theo DW, Siblings’ vocalist, describes the song’s lyrical destination (the garden) as ‘a tender place of innocence and unconscious change.’ That quality, of unnoticed and benevolent transfiguration, is one echoed by the slow evolution of the song’s instrumentation. Things sneak in: here, a shaker, there a far-off harmony line, subtleties which keep the listener at once engaged and adrift. In ‘The Garden’, Siblings ensure that we have no option besides floating alongside them, ever farther on down the ‘river of time’.
Watch/Listen to ‘The Garden’ here:
