This is about the Pandemic, or rather I think, the feeling we all got at the beginning of the Pandemic that this might become something...apocalyptic. And in a way it has. In the US at least, we are a democracy in decline. Driven to madness by divisions manufactured in the service of a greedy few. Worldwide, the wealthy elite have shown their hand as we continue to slouch into authoritarian dictatorships and oligarchies. There\'s nowhere to escape to except home. To the garden. And with a little luck, we\'ll survive. My spin on this anyway. \n\nOr you could take it from the horse\'s mouth via the Pitchfork album review: \n\n"Barlow is allotted exactly two songs, [...] a slightly mawkish song of devotion called “You Wonder,” a compelling English-folk pastiche called “Garden.”\n\nThe latter is a survival anthem, and takes its title from a sign Barlow spotted on a shed while driving through Massachusetts: Back to the Garden. “I was looking for a resolution,” Barlow explained. “Where do we go when faced with such dramatic confusion? Back to basics, back home, back to the garden.”
This is about the Pandemic, or rather I think, the feeling we all got at the beginning of the Pandemic that this might become something...apocalyptic. And in a way it has. In the US at least, we are a democracy in decline. Driven to madness by divisions manufactured in the service of a greedy few. Worldwide, the wealthy elite have shown their hand as we continue to slouch into authoritarian dictatorships and oligarchies. There\'s nowhere to escape to except home. To the garden. And with a little luck, we\'ll survive. My spin on this anyway. \n\nOr you could take it from the horse\'s mouth via the Pitchfork album review: \n\n"Barlow is allotted exactly two songs, [...] a slightly mawkish song of devotion called “You Wonder,” a compelling English-folk pastiche called “Garden.”\n\nThe latter is a survival anthem, and takes its title from a sign Barlow spotted on a shed while driving through Massachusetts: Back to the Garden. “I was looking for a resolution,” Barlow explained. “Where do we go when faced with such dramatic confusion? Back to basics, back home, back to the garden.”