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Mar 7, 2017Joined on several tracks by lush-voiced shapeshifters the Smoke Fairies, Garwood is in his bailiwick throughout the set, drifting through spacious landscapes with his rumbling poeticism and dark-toned riffs.
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Feb 6, 2017Loose, heady and sensual by turns, Garden of Ashes surveys both the parlous state of the world and blasted inner landscapes with resonant instrumentation, rattlesnake percussion and a thousand-yard stare. And yet, on songs such as Sleep, the overriding impression is one of succour.
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Feb 2, 2017Garwood forces the listener to adopt his pace--a sort of aural equivalent of the “slow food” movement. But it works.
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MojoJan 30, 2017Rueful, ruminative and ultimately hypnotic, Garden Of Ashes sings a welcome blues for the coming apocalypse. [Mar 2017, p.97]
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Q MagazineJan 30, 2017Garden of Spirits up singular aural magic from today's mood of global dread. [Mar 2017, p.113]
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Jan 30, 2017With Garden Of Ashes he secures his position as not just a musician’s musician, but one who looks set to grow a wider following.
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Jan 30, 2017By the time you hit Coldblooded The Return, you can't help but feel you've been on a journey in the company of someone a little more well-travelled. You've had a time. And the best thing about it is that you can take that journey again any damn time you feel like it.
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Feb 8, 2017Garden Of Ashes is redolent of a muggy swamp and just as easy to sink into.
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UncutJan 30, 2017Despite its heady beauty, a gloomy fatefulness also shapes this set. [Mar 2017, p.30]
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Feb 2, 2017While everything sounds lovely and moody--understated desert blues for a night in without the smartphone--beware the risk that it might send you to literal sleep, too.