“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. Along the way, the songs touch on grief, drinking, body image, and self esteem, all loosely connected through the story of that one night.
Howard, Deeley, Annabel Whittle, and Tippi Morgan have spent years developing their sound. What began with post punk and surf pop jam sessions in college has evolved into a mix of British indie rock and dance music. 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 influences are easy to hear. Listening to the album brought me back twenty years, to a time when indie rock and dance music were constantly crossing paths. It’s sharp, energetic, melodic, and a lot of fun.
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