Bell Gardens - Hangups Need Company

Brian McBride of Stars Of The Lid and Ken Gibson of The Furry Things play an unhurried pop from another time: Hear Beach Boys, Spector, Nitzsche. Bell Gardens began with just two friends (Kenneth James Gibson and Brian McBride) over many late nights talking and playing for each other the songs that have inspired them over the years.  Songs such as the Beach Boy’s Cuddle Up, Jack Nitzsche’s We Have to Stay, and even a Bobby Vinton song or two, seemed to make sense of their lives at the time. Even when the duo first thought about making music together, Skeeter Davis’s End of the World was unanimously chosen as a piece that the duo would aspire to properly cover.The EP Hangups Need Company  by Bell Gardens is loosely based on a sense of “pop” from another time. Although pop is what you could call it, there is still a sense of restraint and unhurried beauty here combined with a sense of heady beds of weirdness. The LA Weekly describes it like this: “It’s gorgeous, rapturous pop balladry with candy-coated Beach Boys falsettos and pre-afro-Phil Spector production. It’s weightless with gravitas. Gibson might be the techno flavor du jour, but this is the stuff that will mark his place. I found him.”

1. Through The Rain 2. No Story 3. End Of The World 4. Can We Get 5. Labour At The Landmark 6. Breeze (Letters By The Bed)

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