{"product_id":"the-garden-dream","title":"The Garden Dream","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs she’s gotten older, Ella Smoker has found that her subconscious\nhas been trying to tell her “some pretty wacky stuff”. Thoughts will\ncome to the 21-year-old singer-songwriter in dreams, or as she\nwrites lyrics in studio sessions, words floating onto the page before\nshe’s really had a moment to realise what they are. “As soon as we\nstart making the music, my brain sort of turns off,” she explains. “I’ll\nbe sitting there, writing all this stuff that feels like a load of\nnonsense, and a month later, I'll look back and be like ‘oh’. It all\ncomes from a place I didn’t even realise was there.”\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn learning how to open up to herself, gglum ended up finding a\nkindred spirit in producer Karma Kid (Maisie Peters, Shygirl, Connie\nConstance), pushing past her natural bedroom-pop introversion to\nfind joy in the process of collaboration. Whether it’s the ragged\nradio-rock of ‘SPLAT!’ (“basically about realising that somebody you\nheld up very highly is actually just a massive shambles of a\nperson”) or the riotous, industrial energy of ‘Easy Fun’, Smoker is\nable to reshape her vocal around the mood, creating a record which\nexpertly balances light and shade. “I've never really done anything\nin like that vocal style before,” she says of ‘Easy Fun’s near-spoken\ndelivery. “I love that song because it’s not something I would have\ncome up with on my own, but Karma Kid was great at pushing me\nout of my comfort zone. I just thought like, look: I can be a little\nsilly with this.”\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe release of \u003ci\u003eThe Garden Dream\u003c\/i\u003e will offer gglum plenty more\nopportunity to get both silly and serious, to be bold in her\nexploration of new ideas and sounds. But it will also offer the\nopportunity to further accept herself as the dreamlike artist she\nalways wanted to be; confidently embellishing acoustic worlds that\nher listeners can burrow safely within.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I feel like I naturally gravitate towards wanting to make musical\nspaces that you can feel like you’re living in, rather than trying to\nmake songs”, she says. “That's something I really wanted to solidify\nwith this album: I basically want to make music that feels like when\nyou're looking out the window and it's the end of the film and\nyou're imagining what comes next. That's the sound of what I want\nto be doing.”\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secretly Canadian","offers":[{"title":"Orange LP","offer_id":50402040381771,"sku":"2177174","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50402039791947,"sku":"2177173","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tape","offer_id":50402039562571,"sku":"2177172","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50402039202123,"sku":"2177171","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/fB9qmXCQ_f3f8641d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726529636","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/the-garden-dream","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}