Corey Flood Announce Debut Album Hanging Garden Out September 4th !
Fire Talk is excited to announce the debut record from Corey Flood entitled Hanging Garden Out September 4th on the label. Inspired by Throwing Muses, Helium, Pale Saints, and Brix Smith-Start’s work with the Fall, Hanging Garden reflects “a reckoning with internal discord.” From the surface, its nine tracks appear to break through the dark fog of Wish You Hadn’t, but just below lay themes of ambivalence, uncertainty, and anxiety, layered elegantly in fuzz. Soft melodies, lush guitars, and churning rhythms shroud relatable tales of gaslighting and self-doubt. Playful surprises also abound, like 70s krautrock guitar work and samba-influenced drum parts.
Today you can hear lead track “Heaven Or” and pre order the record on limited edition light pink vinyl below. Gray-Klein says of the track "This song touches on themes that ripple throughout the album, like getting stuck in cyclical thoughts and struggling to articulate emotions. There was a period when I was disassociating a lot and just felt so numb and passive to everything happening around me. To try and counteract this I experimented with reckless choices just to try and feel something or "wake myself up,"which was really at odds with my natural inclination towards caution. The refrain "I know what I saw" is a sort of an internal monologue in the face of others' shifting narratives. It's an affirmation to myself that my experience is real, my knowledge can be trusted, I know what I saw”
