Midnight Garden is the eighth album by Frenchy And The Punk the New York based, hard touring duo of Samantha Stephenson and Scott Helland, who recorded this album at Split Rock studios in Palz, it was engineered by Jason Sarubbi and mastered by Martin Bowes. Having heard many of these songs live during the bands UK tour I must recommend seeing them live if they come near to your town.
The album opens with the very Siouxie delight of the title song Midnight Garden a place that doesn't have any of the dodgy associations, no singing about a Chinese restaurant, this Midnight Garden sounds like a wonderfully gothic place to hang out in, with Scott Helland's guitar doing all sorts of wondrous stuff set against the strings and inventive percussion, allowing them to hide from all the world's problems.
Skip Boom you've been had again, treated like a damn fool, how simple do you think they are, gauzy goth pop encompasses them like a protective barrier against the stupidity surrounding them.
Portents of doom come cruising in to open the single Hypnotized that certainly has me singing along, now I've heard it both live, plus a few listens to the single and album. This will sound great on any goth alternative club dancefloor.
Immortal is what every band hopes its songs will become, this songs immortality rests in just how catchy it is, they disappear within the gauzy weave of the tambourines, shaking you into that trance like state, your auras shine through time.
Like in A Dream has a harp-like quality to the guitar pattern Scott plays to open the dream like state this song creates, through widescreen expansive percussion and strings, while Samantha takes us deep beneath the sea to the heart of her dream.
Mr Scorpion adds a dubby edge to the music, the tale of Mr Scorpion slowly crawls around your speakers, weaving his despicable web. Just beware of ladies wearing Victorian Scorpion broaches.
Sleepwalk Shuffle has crazy horse guitar wails, accompanying that Sleepwalk Shuffle as you manage to ignore all the evil going on the world, enabling the evil doers, you just try to live a decent life, greed consumes them in the descent towards oblivion, that has rarely sounded quite as poppy and upbeat, shake those tambourines to the ground.
Lighting Up The Sky like a super nova firework, shards of guitar notes, wolf calls, sparks showering from cymbal crashes, driving beat insinuating itself quickly to get your feet moving to this anthem.
End Of An Era is a dark mantra with talking drums a choir of angels hoping to destroy the destroyers bringing hope to a new generation, the dark sadness inevitable when you look at the enemy forces gathering.
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