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The Garden is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Killing Joke, Minutemen, Johnny Paycheck and The Partisans. Those roots explain a lot about how The Garden arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Puzzle, Squid, Cola, This Heat and The Voidz, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Destroy Boys and Nick Simper, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 16 connections around The Garden, reaching back through Killing Joke and forward to Destroy Boys. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
The Garden is an American experimental punk rock band from Orange County, California, formed in 2011 by twin brothers Wyatt and Fletcher Shears. The duo released their debut album The Life and Times of a Paperclip in 2013, with several smaller releases following. In 2015, the group released their second studio album Haha along with the lead single "All Smiles Over Here :)" to critical acclaim after being signed to Epitaph Records. The brothers have toured across the United States, Europe, the United Kingdom, China, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and Mexico. The duo also performed at Coachella in 2019 and 2023.
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The Garden connections
The Garden grew out of Killing Joke, Minutemen, Johnny Paycheck and The Partisans, shares an orbit with Puzzle, Squid, Cola and This Heat, went on to shape Destroy Boys and Nick Simper. 16 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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