Different Times

Genres: Shoegaze

Bands: Giardini di Mirò EN

DESCRIPTION BY THE BAND

Released on November 30 by 42 Records (I Cani, Cosmo, Colapesce Andrea Laszlo De Simone, Any Other…) the new album by Giardini di Mirò, a true legend of Italian independent music. A long wait for a band with an endless discography, but that despite lps, ep’s, soundtracks and soundtracks of silent films, had not presented a work of unreleased songs since as far back as 2012, with “Good Luck.” But now the time has come, and “Different Times” is ready. And it is a comeback in grand style, one that maintains solid ties with the past but projects Giardini di Mirò further forward, toward a bright future yet to be written, also thanks to the renewed collaboration with Giacomo Fiorenza, the same producer with whom they had made the first two albums “Rise and Fall of Academic Drifting” and “Punk… Not Diet!”, which had immediately consecrated them among the indispensable of the Zero years. Two years of work, the usual maniacal attention to sounds, to every slightest variation, to every single detail, all aimed at recreating that swinging mood between post-rock, psychedelia and electronics that has always made Giardini di Mirò’s records true sound experiences, musical journeys that sometimes stay on eccentric song forms, other times derail towards the most disparate directions. Exactly like the title track: nine minutes in which Giardini di Mirò wanted to show everyone that they are in better shape than ever, more focused than ever, always ready to hypnotize the ears and set Italian and European stages on fire as they have been doing for at least two decades. But in “Different Times” there is much more, there are nine incredibly dense tracks and 50 minutes of music, there are prestigious collaborations, such as those with Adele Nigro of Any Other in “Don’t Lie,” Robin Proper-Sheppard of Sophia in “Hold On,” Glen Johnson of Piano Magic in “Failed to Chart” and Daniel O’Sullivan in the final “Fieldnotes,” there is a liquid compactness that so many over the years have tried to replicate, but that virtually no one has been able to match. And then there are the changes of these two decades, and so “Different Times” also wants to be a reflection on the duration of time. Without making any particular judgments, just accepting its rules and its consequences, with the gaze moving to other parts of the world, to other centralities, as the geography and importance of things inevitably change. This is also the reason why the cover shot, by Simone Mizzotti, shows a soccer field scattered in an ordinary suburb. Only that suburb is in China. But from China one irretrievably returns home, and so here are the experiences and metamorphoses of Giardini di Mirò, the balance between the historical core from Cavriago and the newcomers who over the years have influenced the band’s path, making it always original and never the same, are also recounted in the book of the same name (written by Marco Braggion and with a preface by Carlo Pastore), which will be released on November 29, the day before the release, by Crac Edizioni. In short, it took a long time, but in “Different Times,” in its forms, there is everything one could ask from a record by Giardini di Mirò, from Giardini di Mirò. Because they are back, and they are really back. [2018] [2018]

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