{"product_id":"duke-garwood-garden-of-ashes","title":"Duke Garwood - Garden Of Ashes","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\r\u003cdiv class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\"\u003e\r\u003cp\u003eIn the face of an apocalypse, we all need a safe house. A place for sanctuary; not to hide, but to claim for our own. On his new album, South London‰۪s unlikely bluesman Duke Garwood has found the perfect place for us all, and says it‰۪s time to meet in the Garden of Ashes. ‰ÛÏI am an angry man; so angry I burn myself. So angry I heat up the air around me. This is the nuclear fuel I use to make music,‰۝ tells Duke. ‰ÛÏIn a world so full of pain and madness we need to be better than ever; to evolve not devolve. To become masters of our fate and stop listening to the snake talkers who would steal our last breath. It‰۪s time to go Elvis and shoot the cursed TV.‰۝ For an artist who claims to be angry, there‰۪s a lot of love to be heard in Duke‰۪s music and in the face of impeding Armageddon, just as Nick Cave claims in his film \u003ci\u003eOne More Time With Feeling\u003c\/i\u003e, the only way to fight anguish is with positivity. On Duke‰۪s sixth album \u003ci\u003eGarden Of Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e, that‰۪s precisely the message. \"I make beautiful music, because we don't need angry music right now. Everyone can turn on the TV and see the horror show, they don't need to hear it coming out the stereo. I‰۪m trying to distil this frustrating feeling we all have right now into something more focused.‰۝ Only in the \u003ci\u003eGarden of Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e can such furious frustration be channelled. Whilst last year‰۪s \u003ci\u003eHeavy Love \u003c\/i\u003ethrust Duke into the spotlight with well long-overdue praise for its clarity and the ‰ÛÏmad blues‰۝ charisma of a musician at his 20-year career peak, \u003ci\u003eGarden of Ashes \u003c\/i\u003etakes it all up a level, higher than many would think possible. ‰ÛÏThis album is about midnight in the garden of love. The garden of good and evil. The garden of paradise that we know is being destroyed to satisfy the greedy money people. It's all burned down. We burned it to ashes.‰۝ Whilst fans, fellow artists and collaborators including Josh T. Pearson, Tinariwen, Mark Lanegan, Kurt Vile, and Savages‰۪ Jehnny Beth all marvelled at \u003ci\u003eHeavy Love\u003c\/i\u003e and its depiction of an artist who has always cut his own groove, \u003ci\u003eGarden of Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e is equally doused in magnetising imagism (\u003ci\u003eColdblooded The Return\u003c\/i\u003e brings the record full circle with slightly altered lyrics as though its grown wiser throughout the course of the album and \u003ci\u003eSleep\u003c\/i\u003e nods to the writing of Werner Herzog). ‰ÛÏI was inspired to follow \u003ci\u003eHeavy Love\u003c\/i\u003e with a warm bath of honey for the soul. It's a stare down to the beast of hate trying to take over our garden. Time for Man to be the beautiful warrior and stand up for his loves,‰۝ Duke says.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\u003c\/div\u003e\r\u003cdiv class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\"\u003e\r\u003cp\u003eLP - With Download.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"South Records Ltd","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":64322640675193,"sku":null,"price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0973\/1463\/6153\/files\/duke-garwood-garden-of-ashes-south-records-ltd_572c91ed-0a46-4918-8a43-01f8d19d15fe.jpg?v=1787902741","url":"https:\/\/vinyl-relic.com\/products\/duke-garwood-garden-of-ashes","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}