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Paradise Gardens

by White Poppy

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1.
Broken 04:17
There’s a hole in my heart There’s a hole in my heart There’s a hole in my heart There’s a hole in my heart Don’t know where the pieces are Don’t know where the pieces are Don’t know where the pieces are There’s a hole in my head There’s a hole in my head There’s a hole in my head There’s a hole in my head Guess I’m better off than dead Guess I’m better off than dead Guess I’m better off than dead I can’t sleep can’t sleep at night I can’t sleep can’t sleep at night I can’t sleep can’t sleep at night I can’t sleep can’t sleep at night Wheels are turning in my head Wheels are turning in my head Wheels are turning in my head And I don’t want to complain I don’t want to complain I don’t want to complain I don’t want to complain But I can’t help myself today But I can’t help myself today But I can’t help myself today
2.
Memories 04:05
I am letting go Of who I used to be Everything I know Is rearranging And I don’t need I don’t need No I don’t need I don’t need All of those memories memories All of those memories memories I am moving on From where I used to be All I had is gone The past is fading And I don’t need I don’t need No I don’t need I don’t need those memories memories All of those memories memories No I don’t need I don’t need No I don’t need I don’t need those memories memories All of those memories memories
3.
Hardly Alive 03:52
I don’t wanna sit here as life goes by But sometimes I can’t find the reason why I should go outside but I don’t want to I don’t care anyway I guess I'll waste another day Can you feel it I’m dying inside Can you see it I’m hardly alive Hardly alive hardly alive I don’t mean to be so pessimistic But when I’m feeling down I can’t help it Excuse myself for feeling sorry It’s just a part of me left over from tragedy Can you feel it I’m dying inside Can you see it I’m hardly alive Hardly alive hardly alive Can you feel it I’m dying inside Can you see it I’m hardly alive Hardly alive hardly alive
4.
Hawk 03:08
I am free to fly Dancing in the sky heaven in my mind I am free to die Choose to stay alive Heaven in my mind Heaven in my mind Heaven in my mind Heaven in my mind Heaven in my mind I am free to try Let the pain roll by Heaven in my mind I am free to find What I need inside Heaven in my mind Heaven in my mind Heaven in my mind Heaven in my mind Heaven in my mind
5.
Orchid Child 05:22
Don’t let anybody tell me what to do I live my life the way I want to Move like the clouds in the sky Don’t hesitate don’t ask why Just do what I want to do what I want to do what I want to do what I want to I won’t wait for things to come to me I don’t wanna wonder how it could’ve been I’ll move like the waves in the sea And find a way to be free And do what I want to do what I want to do what I want to do what I want to
6.
I was dreaming for something I could feel Something that was real something I was longing for something I could see Something to believe Something
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8.
Silence 03:29
I am alone You are too You think you have somebody but you don’t In the end you know it’s only you You stay outside your head to kill the silence The silence that is there when you’re alone But you can’t avoid your own reflection Somewhere it will catch up down the road I am alone You are too You think you have somebody but you don’t In the end you know it’s only you I am alone I am alone I am alone You are too
9.
Rainbow 04:39
Rainbow Let it show You already know Now you can let go Dark skies Fill your eyes Then you realize There is light Leave the old you Become new Rainbow Let it show Rainbow Let it go Rainbow
10.
Phoenix 03:57

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British Columbia dreamer Crystal Dorval’s latest and lushest kaleidoscope-pop long-player took root four years ago as a hazy notion of “new age shoegaze bossa nova.” Across reflective summers and long winter nights in a thin-walled shack on a remote rural horse farm the vision evolved, eventually centering on a mythical muse, Paradise Gardens, somewhere between utopian sanctuary and decaying tropical apartment complex. Though the songs began as attempts to “transcend darkness,” over time they absorbed shadows and sorrows of their own, becoming lessons in coexistence: “learning to be with it all.” The album evokes overlapping vignettes within this layered fantasia: fading flowers along a balcony, distant birds above the surf, light glittering off a courtyard pond, sunset skylines darkening to lavender night. It’s a place of healing but also heaviness, fragile peace contoured with pains of the past.

White Poppy’s music has always been mirage-like but here her voice, guitar, keys, and soft-focus siren designs feel uniquely potent and distilled, weathered and wizened by years and yearning, the weight of memories of memories. These are melodies of psychic questing and self-discovery, at the edge of illusion and insight, glimpses of heaven half-remembered and half-imagined: “Paradise is a place within.”

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released April 24, 2020

Mixed by Jordan Koop at The Noise Floor.
Mastered by Mitch Holtby.
Art and design by Crystal Dorval.

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