Haiku Garden - Where If Not Now (2018) EN

I got to know Haiku Garden's music while they had a gig in Kraków, now the Slovenians are releasing their first LP filled with psychedelic shoegaze of great quality. Where If Not Now makes an attention worthy example of eurogaze or in general, of combining pop with heavier hits.

The psychedelic part of their project is not only present in the brilliant and abstract cover art and visualizations during concerts. It is also present in the music, especially in impressive guitar riffs and non-orthodox ways the musicians chose to develop their compositions in. It matches the slightly hidden, shoegaze-style, vocal and guitar walls of sound it's accompanied with.

One can't appreciate enough also how varied their music is. Besides the more guitar and catchy tracks (Days, Dripping Away) one can also find some, probably even better sounding, psychedelic ballads (Barriers), and the two natures are combined together in the great Drifter, a fading away in haze ballad crowned with a danceable finish. No wonder that the band enjoyed having the song of the day title in the legendary KEXP radio and a long Euro concert tour.

Where If Not Now costs 5 EUR.

Check: Barrier

Country: Slovenia

Genre: psychedelic shoegaze

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