Lime Garden – 23
Brighton’s Lime Garden drop “23,” the second single from their album Maybe Not Tonight, out 10 April via So Young Records. The track came together during a rainy January afternoon, built around a Happy Mondays-inspired bassline that vocalist and guitarist Chloe Howard developed with the band.
Howard wrote the song after a dream where she confronted her younger self. “In the dream I was essentially ripping into my own personality and lack of success,” she explains.
Producer Charlie Andrew (Wolf Alice, alt-J) worked with the band on the album, with additional production from drummer Annabel Whittle. The record draws from Bon Iver, A.G. Cook, Scissor Sisters, and Lily Allen, folding pop immediacy into Lime Garden’s post-punk foundations. Howard describes the album as following a full night out from start to finish: “You’re having a great time, until your ex walks in with someone else. You hate the way you look but rather than going home, you press the big red button and get even more drunk.”
The album tackles grief, drinking, body image, and self-esteem—written after what the band calls a collective “mass breakup.” Howard frames the creative process as necessary confrontation: “Part of the ethos of the record is about addressing, rather than ignoring, all the shitty things you’ve done. You have to actually face up to yourself.”
This follows their 2024 debut One More Thing, which NME gave four stars and praised as an “enjoyably jagged, ambitious cacophony.”
Tracklist:
- 23
- Cross My Heart
- Downtown Lover
- All Bad Parts
- Maybe Not Tonight
- Body
- Lifestyle
- Undressed
- Always Talking About You
- Do You Know What I’m Thinking
Europe:
- 2 October – Bristol, Electric Bristol, UK
- 5 October – Oxford, The Bullingdon, UK
- 6 October – Cambridge, Junction 1, UK
- 9 October – Birkenhead, Future Yard, UK
- 10 October – Leeds, Stylus, UK
- 12 October – Newcastle, The Grove, UK
- 13 October – Edinburgh, Mash House, UK
- 14 October – Glasgow, Mono, UK
- 16 October – Manchester, Gorilla, UK
- 17 October – Nottingham, Rescue Rooms, UK
- 18 October – Norwich, Waterfront, UK
- 20 October – Birmingham, Castle & Falcon, UK
- 21 October – London, Electric Brixton, UK
