As we slowly work on new material, here is an oldie but goodie.
Bell Gardens
Guy Clark cover on dublab compilation
You can now get our cover of the Guy Clark / Townes Van Zandt tune “Don’t Let The Sunshine Fool Ya” on dublab‘s Bandcamp page as part of the donation based “Reflective: A Dublab Covers Compilation”. Also on the comp. is other good folks such as Elephant Pixel, Van Dyke Parks, Mia Doi Todd, James Figurine and many more!
Bell Gardens plays with Spindrift at Mrs. Fish DTLA
Bell Gardens plays with His Name Is Alive at The Echo
What they are saying about “Slow Dawns For Lost Conclusions”
“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