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Earlier this year a phenomenal new UK band came onto The Soundcheck's radar, brandishing some adventurous alternative charm that spans stomping rock, blistering riffs, gritty-yet-creamy melodics, pop, metal, grooves and everything you could imagine that exists between all of those genre gamuts.
Unveiling their debut self-titled EP earlier this year, unpeople brought lashings of fresh air, showcasing not only their sonic diversity but their ability to throw down with the best of them, whether via the churning outro of smother or the harsher moments of a track like moon baboon. But there's also a fascinating accessibility to unpeople, somewhat in the vein of the light and shade delights of Turnstile while also feeling entirely of their own ilk, and unpeople's brand new track the garden which dropped this week is further proof that this group needs to get on your radar - STAT.
Releasing the garden with an accompanying music video, and also busting it out on the same day as their first ever headline show in London (which sold out), the garden is a stomping earworm that dazzles in knife-like tones, tasty riffs and a superstar vocal outing from Jake Crawford.
"the garden started off as a joke. An actual musical joke. A musical joke that we couldn’t stop singing for weeks on end. Lyrically I wanted to keep it very simple and borderline surface level nonsensical. There is meaning but I’d rather leave that up to the listener to discern and interpret for themselves. Sometimes you want to get away from it all but simultaneously have a feeling of familiarity and a sense of security." - unpeople
If you've slept on unpeople thus far, now is the time to get on board; there's definitely some huge things ahead for this band taking aim at "the state of the world and its effects on humanity" in irresistibly vivid fashion.
the garden is out now. For more unpeople info, head here.
BY TIANA SPETER