“Seeing your ex with someone else at said party, bringing up all of your insecurities and crying on the way home, wondering if you’ll ever be able to love anyone else again. A painful yet very relatable experience, we hope.” Leila Deeley
Maybe Not Tonight, Lime Garden’s second album, unfolds across the span of one night out, from the first rush to the walk home after the night turns. As Chloe Howard has explained, the night begins in release and ends in melancholy, chaos, and anger, once an ex appears and every buried insecurity rises to the surface. Grief, drinking, body image, self esteem, the album carries all of it in the story's arc. Lime Garden give the album a loose narrative frame, then let the songs fill it with blur, compulsion, and the private unraveling that follows a night spent trying to outrun your own thoughts.
Howard, Deeley, Annabel Whittle, and Tippi Morgan have spent years sharpening their sound. What began in basement rooms in college, with loose post punk and surf pop jamming sessions, has evolved into a great blending of British sleaze driven indie rock and dance. The band have pointed to Scissor Sisters, The Breeders, New Order, Daft Punk, LCD Soundsystem, Phoenix, and Gorillaz as reference points for Maybe Not Tonight, and those traces can be heard. Listening to the album brought me back twenty years, to records that knew how to be wiry, sleek, bruising, and fun at once. It's an album that's sharp, vibrant, and a great listen.
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