Indie singer-songwriter Emma Noren crafts a delicate spell on her single “Garden” a song released this summer about “embarrassing dreams and the search for contentment in the now.”
The track crafts a soothing spirit of folk-led rock with a colorful and lush sense of dreamy indie rock with traces of some 90s elements in its raw and honest approach. There is an emotive undercurrent throughout her performance, one that blends well in contrast to some more upbeat and vibrant instrumentation and production.
Speaking on the track, Noren adds:
“Garden is this metaphor for all of my biggest, most embarrassing dreams – everything I want to do and be – and me shaking myself by the shoulders to wake up and realize that what I have and who I am now is actually pretty cool. As a kid, I fantasized about having a big garden of my own when I grew up, but I ended up living in a bunch of places that didn’t have room for one.
Instead I got a bunch of other amazing things: a dog named Flapjack, a girlfriend, some really killer friends. So the message of Garden is maybe what I got was better than what I thought I wanted. It represents this intimate, torturous obsession that I have with the future and the unattainable, and attempts to bring me back to reality. It’s intended to be a bit of a soft slap on the cheek, a push to focus on what’s right in front of me and how beautiful it is, and a gentle reminder that we have time to grow and get there on our own time.”
Enjoy a listen to “Garden” now below.
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