Leeds’ Green Gardens’ distinct brand of indie combines lo-fi guitars, introspective lyrics, and carefully crafted melodies.
Ghost Of A Tree is rooted (no pun intended) in the examination and exploration of nature and the passage of time.
Bassist and vocalist Jacob Cracknell explained: “Ghost Of A Tree feels tome as a layering of things, like sedimentary rock or bodies trapped in bogs. I like seeing time illustrated so bluntly by those things and sometimes that can hit you hard in their rigidity. They don’t tell you that winter can drag its feet, they just show years pass all the same. I heard someone on the radio recently talking about how they can tell when solar flares happened centuries ago due to the rings in trees and I sometimes wonder if my head when I sleep is laying where one of those trees was swelling and growing. These things make me feel significant, part of it all.”
You can certainly hear the pensiveness, almost plaintiveness here. It’s thoughtful, moody and considered.
The second track here was a single in its own right a couple of months ago. Year Of Love is even more mediative than the first track. The line “and I felt like a corpse” pretty much sums up the tone here. It’s sombre and morose. The pace is methodical and deliberate.
A bit like Low, listening to this feels a bit like listening in on the crafting of a thing of beauty, in slow motion. By the time the outro kicks in it feels like we’ve sped up to real time, and it’s just as beautiful.
Written by Kinda Grizzly
