24-year olf Dutch multi-instrumentalist Jacco
Gardner announces the release of a double dose of hits for Trouble
in Mind - the "Where Will You Go" 7"
out on August 7.
While not writing songs as half of the freakbeat duo The
Skywalkers, Jacco Gardner crafts some of the most finest baroque pop created
since the late 60’s...The psychedelic imagery used in the video is a visual
interpretation of Gardner’s sound. Taking inspiration from the likes of The
Zombies and the hugely overlooked Billy Nicholls, Gardner has made a perfect
piece of sunshine pop that should be added to everyone’s summer playlist.
Playing guitar, bass, drums, harpsichord, percussion and
keyboards on the recordings, Gardner creates an entire cascading
psychedelic world - step through the looking glass in the "Where Will
You Go" video.
Praise for Jacco Gardner
Produced by Gardner who plays everything but drums, there
are traces of mod, but it's mainly the whimsical sounds of the late sixties U.K
psych scene that are evoked here. It may have been recorded and released this
year, but it doesn't sound a day over 1967.
The Active Listener
It's like a way-back-machine - I mean this doesn't sound
strained retro - it sounds like a lost and found single straight from 1968.
Dying For Bad Music
Great baroque pop/psych treasure.
One Chord
More on Jacco Gardner
Allow us to introduce the US debut of 24-year old Dutch
multi-instrumentalist Jacco Gardner – prepare to have your minds blown.
After releasing a criminally limited 7” in Europe earlier in 2012, Gardenr
returns with a brand-new, double dose of hits for Trouble in Mind. “Where
Will You Go”s opening guitar strums fade into view before lurching into a
dreamy baroque-pop groover, with lush melodies cascading over a driving drum
beat, conjuring images of Syd jamming with Revolver-era Beatles.
“Summer’s Game” chimes in with Jacco crooning like a young Colin Blunstone over
a lilting harpsichord that unfolds into a heavenly psychedelic pop gem –
shimmering right there on your turntable. Mining the past can be tricky
business, but Gardner maneuvers his way around the trapping by not simply aping
his influences, b ut by creating a unique and stirring new voice in modern
psychedelic pop music. The first pressing of 500 copies is pressed on
randomly mixed vinyl, comes housed in the Trouble in Mind company sleeve and
includes a download code.
RIYL: The Zombies, Left Banke, Paperhead, Billy Nicholls,
Black Angels
More from Trouble in Mind
Started in Chicago in 2009 as a way to release 7"s with
perfect pop songs, Trouble in Mind expanded their catalog of
releases in 2011 with LPs from Mikal Cronin, Night Beats, The
Wax Museums, The Paperhead and The Wrong Words!
Check out this playlist with a track from each release plus a
bonus track from the Apache Dropout 7".
In 2012, Trouble in Mind's exciting release
schedule continues with new music from the Estrogen Highs, Hollows, the
Resonars and the return of the SXSW/Record Store Day 4-way covers
split 7" featuring exclusive cover songs performed by Mikal
Cronin, The Liminanas, The Paperhead and Apache Dropout.
Trouble in Mind has releases in excellent record
stores near you from Jeffrey Novak (Cheap Time), Alex Cuervo, The
Limiñanas, Vermillion Sands, Wounded Lion, Personal & the
Pizzas, The Wrong Words, Tropical Sleep, Sticks N Stones, Night
Beats, The Hex Dispensers, The Mean Jeans, The Limiñanas, Hollows, Ty
Segall, Tyler Jon Tyler, Wheels on Fire, Sonic Chicken 4, Charlie
& the Moonhearts, The Fresh & Onlys and The White Wires delivering
on their mission to put "the emphasis back on the music and prove that the
2 1/2 minute pop song is alive and well."
Trouble In Mind interviews with The Onion
A.V. Club, Fracture Compound and Neu Magazine.
Jacco Gardner Facebook
Jacco Gardner Website
http://www.troubleinmindrecs.com
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