Motel Radio "Garden" 2025-09-26 The liner notes claim this

The liner notes claim this is Carney's "patented recording technique called 'medium fidelity'"

and complex syncopations

and tight songcraft

"The Only Exception" from 2009's platinum Brand New Eyes

and their music just kept getting louder and stranger and more savage

Motel Radio "Garden" 2025-09-26 The liner notes claim thisWritten and recorded in the midst of a dizzying stretch in which nearly everything about the way the band lived and worked was turned on its head, The Garden is indeed a work of relentless hope. The songs are profoundly vulnerable here, and the performances are warm and breezy, calling to mind everything from Andy Shauf and Cass McCombs to Beck and Tame Impala with an easygoing demeanor that belies the deep emotional work underpinning them. Motel