Once again leaving genre boundaries in the dust, The Garden twins return with Mirror Might Steal Your Charm, out  March 30 via Epitaph Records. Taking the audience away into a still unfathomed sound world and bringing back some of the scuzzier elements of their earlier work, the duo’s more guitar focused third album is another sublime slice of post-modern pop. Welcome back to a land that’s familiar, slightly out of sync, and a little bit unnerving.

Wyatt and Fletcher Shears (24) have been conceptualising their own style since well before the formation of the band in 2011. Described as auditory invaders of the new world; borderless, informed and decentralised, the duo represent a youthful punk scene in California with their DIY principles, thrift store-cum-glam fashion style and a vast list of influences. While 2013’s Life And Times Of A Paperclip offered a glimpse into their breakbeat-propelled world of electro-punk anarchy, it was their innovative Epitaph debut Haha (2015) that proved them to be much more than style over substance, sadistically teasing all essences of musical genres into 17 wonderfully chaotic tracks.

Mirror Might Steal Your Charm was self-produced and recorded in a lock-out studio in one short burst. "I think it’s healthy as an artist to switch up your environment once in a while. The production is tight as a whistle, but also more raw” offers Wyatt. "The process made for a more focused and personal sounding record, with a healthy dose of guitar throughout. Things are a little more refined. If we aren’t implementing past experience into new situations then we aren’t learning. Progress is very appealing to us,” adds Fletcher. New single ‘Stallion’ is the first track on the album and is out today.

The boys’ had this to say on it’s video: "The song itself refers to a build up of aggression and discontent with one's self and how carrying that heavy weight on your back leads to more problems. The video portrays a slightly different image for certain reasons, but gives off a similar feeling to the message of the song. It follows the struggle of a young business man who is consumed with the desire to flaunt his currency and act a fool. Haunted by a demon he cannot see, he tries to find ways to deal with what he truly is."

UK Tour-dates

19th March - Thekla, Bristol

20th March - Headrow House, Leeds

21st March - Electric Ballroom, London

Sibling punk-rock trio Skating Polly are excited to announce their new full-length album, The Make It All Show for release on May 11 via El Camino Media.  They are also premiering the video for “Queen For A Day”, the first new track from the album, which features guest vocals from the song’s co-writer Exene Cervenka; the singer from the seminal punks X.

“The lyrics for this song came from a conversation we had backstage with Exene about the old game show Queen For A Day” explains Skating Polly’s Kelli Mayo. “The premise of the show was that women with tragic stories (sick children, dead husbands, poverty, etc) would compete against each other for applause from the audience. The winner would get a washing machine or whatever household prize they asked for and be crowned Queen For A Day. Months after this conversation, Exene sent me lyrics in a text and we wrote the song around them. She's singing on the second and third choruses too. We wanted the video to emulate the old show but also look like it was directed by John Waters.”

The threesome tracked their forthcoming fifth studio record this past winter at Seagrass Studio in Los Angeles with producer Brad Wood (Smashing Pumpkins, Liz Phair) who also helmed last year’s New Trick EP (feat. Louise Post and Nina Gordon of Veruca Salt).

Between writing and recording this past year, Kelli, Peyton Bighorse, and Curtis Mayo have spent most of their time on the road – supporting X on two legs of their 40th anniversary tour, hitting the UK and Europe with Kate Nash, playing Riot Fest and zig-zagging across the country on multiple headline tours.

The Make It All Show track list:

01. Classless Act

02. Little Girl Blue and the Battle Envy

03. Free Will At Ease

04. Queen For A Day

05. They’re Cheap (I’m Free)

06. Long Ride

07. Camelot

08. Hollywood Factory

09. This Vacation

10. Flatwound Strings

11. Don’t Leave Me Gravity