Selected Press for Slow Dawns For Lost Conclusions
Released on Rocket Girl October 27, 2014
“In terms of sheer scope, few albums to emerge from Los Angeles artists this year can match Bell Gardens’ sophomore effort “Slow Dawns for Lost Conclusions.”
- Buzzbands LA
“cinematic, big-vista threnodies dusted with tumbleweed Americana” 7.4
- Pitchfork
“seamless succession of well-composed ephemeral gems”
- LA Record
“a glorious bit of slowly emerging psych-Americana that makes me feel like dawn is breaking and so is my heart.”
- Stereogum
“Bell Gardens, an outfit that specializes in music bordering on the religious, the revelatory and the profoundly beautiful… ”
- Flipside Reviews
“haunting acid-folk, pastoral chamber psych and pedal-steel sprinkled country-gospel subtly hoisting of the heaviest heart and soothing of the most savage breast.”
- Shindig! Magazine
“The result is an enormous, elegiac sound that hails from similarly wide-open, lunar country fields as Mojave 3, and evokes Spiritualized in its softer (and more sober) moments.”
- A.V. Club
“deftly mellowed mix of Americana, folk, gospel, and orchestral pop on offer here. With pedal steel, strings and trumpet adding melancholic texture to the spacious, softly sung arrangements”
- MOJO Magazine
“enough delicate sonic textures to satisfy their more avant-garde inclined fans wrapped around an unhurried, tuneful folk melody”
- Entertainment Weekly
“Take Us Away induces a sense of bliss, abandon and forgetfulness that warrants repeat visits, becoming more hypnotic with each listen.”
- The Metropolist
“unfurling delicately amid tearful cascades of lip biting hymnal symphonic spirals that succulently bathe listening spaces in the immense caress of sighing seafaring overtures”
- The Sunday Experience
“BG are craftspeople, sculpting sound, a very big sound,”
- Monolith Cocktail
“Demure concerns addressed in heart-piercing directness, scant demands stand beneath beautiful hues while Bell Gardens’ delicate, speckled moods rise in majestic splendor”
- Maximum Ink
“I was instantly drawn into the band’s enchanting, mystical melodies. Having just released their second album, this LA ensemble deal in cinematic, heart-wrenching creations.”
- Gig Slutz
“a beautiful album of dream pop lullabies, Slow Dawns For Lost Conclusions.”
- The Underground Of Happiness
“She’s Stuck in the Endless Loop of Her Decline is a monster, an emperor, a cathedral of melancholy; overloaded with the most bittersweet chord changes, and weepy harmonies you can imagine.”
- Incendiary Mag
“textured variation of Americana where psyche-rock and folk ideas are blurred in against hazy, experimental and whispered harmonies”
- Inforty
“flows out of the speakers like it should be heard in a beautiful cathedral, gives me goosebumps of pure joy.”
- The Wandering Lamb
“these atmospheric songs have a calming effect. I want to sleep inside them like a sensory deprivation chamber.”
- Recordsinmylife
Selected Press for for Full Sundown Assembly
Released on Southern, January 13, 2014
“Beautifully understated, slow and graceful…Immaculately conceived.”
- Q magazine
“The architectural sonic opulence McBride is known for is still present, but this time through graceful arrangements of strings and the woozy vocals of Gibson’s former band.”
- MOJO Magazine
“Brilliant results…sublime moments, not least the stomping chorale of “Differently Tonight”
- The Wire
“a record of such genuine pop goodness that it threatens to knock The Beach Boys off my vinyl shelve…Bearing some comparisons, in terms of tone if not particularly instrumentation, with last year’s superb ‘Kaputt’ by Destroyer, this debut Bell Gardens full-length may just be the closest the last decade has come to interesting and intriguing pop.”
- Stereoboard
“It’s like a choir in a haunted church”
- Pop Matters
“Stunning bursts of warm joyous harmonies… burst with a life beyond retro pastiche”
- Brainwashed
“Breathy vocals and harmonies, delicate piano melodies and swooning horns… ”
- Buzzbands LA
“Any listener – regardless of stylistic preference – can agree it’s radiant and beautiful…”
- Obscure Sound
Previous press coming soon…