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Arts & Entertainment, Music

Golden Gardens Craft a Swirly Spell at the Sunset Sunday Night

On Sunday, April 28th, local music label Neon Sigh hosts another neon pop bill. Golden Gardens headlines the set with Nostalgist, Snowdrift, and The Echo Echo Echoes. Doors at 7:30 p.m. at The Sunset Tavern in Ballard, 5433 Ballard Ave NW, $6 cover.

Aubrey Rachel Violet Bramble of Golden Gardens. (Photo: Odawni AJ Palmer)

Stirred together, the members of Seattle’s Golden Gardens are a double-helix of fuzzy, milky, dreamy shoegaze splendor. Aubrey Rachel Violet Bramble (vocals) and Gregg Alexander Joseph Neville (guitar, drums, and effects) have some magical new melodies up their sleeves that they can’t wait to share. They’ll premiere tunes from an EP to be released in early June.

Also gracing the stage, with sultry haunt rock, noirgaze, and ambient surf pop, are Snowdrift, Nostalgist, and The Echo Echo Echoes — respectively. Come out and sway.

If you prefer couch-potato sweatpants Sundays, you’ll have another chance to slather your ears in Golden Gardens’ ganache next month. They play the Columbia City Theatre with Tokyoidaho on Friday, May 17th. Rumor has it there’s going to be a ticket giveaway.

Arts & Entertainment, Music

If It’s Saturday, It’s Neon Pop at The Josephine in Ballard

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Golden Gardens (Photo: Odawni Palmer)

Golden Gardens (Photo: Odawni Palmer)

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On Saturday, February 23rd, local music label Neon Sigh presents for your enjoyment a neon pop quadruple-bill consisting of Golden Gardens, Kelli Francis Corrado, Lou-Lou Hernandez, and The Harvey Girls. Doors are at 8 p.m. at The Josephine in Ballard, $5 cover.

What is neon pop? Here we turn to our Neon Pop Correspondent, Odawni Palmer:

Neon Pop (n.) /ˈnēän päp/ : A type of music supported by local label Neon Sigh that is dreamy, fuzzy, spacey; sometimes with tremolo and massive distortion.

It is blissful shoegaze alchemy when Neon Sigh founder and bassist, Chris Bendix, joins Golden Gardens duo Aubrey Rachel Violet Bramble (vocals) and Gregg Alexander Joseph Neville (guitar, drum machine) on stage. Aubrey mesmerizes us with her haunting vocals and we’re not quite sure what she’s saying but that’s okay. Like Cocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Frasier’s dreamy-taffy voice, the lyrics are secondary.

Kelli Francis Corrado brings her helix of conventional and unconventional sounds, Lou-Lou Hernandez serves up a down-tempo beat-driven sound of cicada wings rubbing together akin to tunes like Sao Paolo on Flying Lotus’ record 1983, and The Harvey Girls rounds out the bill with psychedelic pop you can sway to.

Neon Sigh brings us music that piques and satiates our audial [Let’s roll with it — ed.] curiosity, and we like that. Randall Skrasek provides visual entertainment.