Garbage Garden – “Quiet Garden”

Garbage Garden is an artist who doesn’t make music to fill space. “Quiet Garden” is the newest single from the project, and it’s also the first track in a series called “Still Being”, a collection that looks at human relationships and the quiet toll of existing without being seen.

The song was made with co-producer Peachoman, and the two of them pushed the track away from anything too personal and into something a lot of listeners can find themselves in. It’s about people who do the hard, invisible work in someone else’s life and never hear a word for it. That’s a real thing, and the song doesn’t over-explain it.

The vocals are lovely and attractive, and the cover art adds something too. It’s split right down the middle — one side grey, broken, completely drained of color, the other side overflowing with these wild pink flowers climbing over a crumbling wall. It doesn’t need a caption. You get it immediately, and it pairs with the song in a way that feels thought-out rather than slapped together.

The whole point of the “Still Being” series seems to be giving room to the kinds of experiences that usually get skipped over, and this single is a solid start to that. If you’re curious where Garbage Garden takes it from here, follow the artist on social media, this year looks like it has more coming.