Monobloc are New York’s latest DIY offering, with the release of their latest single ‘Where is My Garden’ revelling in the underground and alternative music scene. Vocalist Timothy Waldron repeatedly calls out the existential questions “where is my garden? Where are my friends? Will it always feel like the end?”, leaving listeners to ponder these thoughts amongst the track’s intricate guitar lines.
The track has been in the works for a few years, with the missing puzzle pieces recently coming together – bassist Michael Silverglade described this process, “I wrote the guitar riff years ago, long before Monobloc was even a thing. We’ve never had more iterations of a single song idea, it just never came together. Yet, I persevered, and after we wrote the first couple of Monobloc tracks, we dug up the old demo”.
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Waldron also opened up onto the single’s themes of disillusion and loneliness, sharing “attached to the main riff of the song was this chorus I really wanted to use but could never find a place where it made sense. “Where is my garden, where are my friends? Will it always feel like the end?” It was a great wide theme – a bit Springsteen and better yet, the closest I could legally get to saying “Where are your friends tonight”.
At the start of their career but already mastering the classic indie rock sound, Monobloc have secured their place as one of NYC’s most exciting up and coming bands.
Photo by Julia Tarantino
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