Garbage Garden’s upcoming single “Fake”

Hailing from Kobe in Japan, Garbage Garden is a creative project built around the vision of Yulmi, whose work incorporates songwriting, concept design, visual direction and sonic curation which all form part of the project’s identity, creating something that feels like a developing creative world. The idea of reflection runs through Garbage Garden’s entire output, where alternative rock, electronic textures, cinematic pop and experimental sound design become the materials through which the project explores existence, connection and the subtle fractures that can exist beneath everyday life.

By not presenting a single, fixed perspective, Garbage Garden gathers fragments and allows them to remain imperfect. Those fragments can be damaged memories, invisible acts of care, lost childhoods, anxious nights or the determination required simply to continue moving forward. The project doesn’t seek to romanticise pain, nor does it attempt to speak on behalf of people who’ve been forgotten. Garbage Garden ultimately searches for whatever light might survive within emotional debris, broken systems and complicated human connections.

This is not music intended to turn suffering into nostalgia or endlessly revisit what has already happened; Garbage Garden offers an invitation to inhabit the present, however difficult or unresolved it might be. First unveiling the project last November with the debut single “Label doesn’t say me,” Garbage Garden has since expanded their artistic world with a string of impressive tracks. Now that world is preparing for its next chapter with “Fake,” a new upcoming single arriving next week on Friday the 28th of August.

“Fake” takes a much heavier route, landing as a metalcore and post hardcore track about a voice arising from a wound. Thematically, it revolves around Yulmi’s own story but the song deliberately reaches beyond autobiography to consider the experiences of people who have found a way to express themselves through AI while simultaneously watching that same technology threaten their professions. That contradiction gives the track its emotional tension and while AI-generated music has become a source of anger and unease, Yulmi doesn’t attempt to ignore those feelings.

“Fake” sits inside that discomfort and while working on Garbage Garden, the project exists alongside that creative community while also occupying a complicated position within the technology that increasingly affects it. Jumping straight into a lively scene of airy vocal leads, the clean crunch of crisp guitars and punch of drums, the track launches with flickering synth runs and the battering beat of drums, setting up a driving scene that bends between delicately melodic moments, bursts of belted vocal screams and passages of synth-inflected hyperpop.

Stacked with raucous guitar-focused arrangement and charging rhythms capped by dramatic vocal performance, “Fake” sees Garbage Garden serve up an engrossing musical experience that’s energising, original and thematically profound all at once. With the release date for the single approaching, Garbage Garden is set to win over bags of new listeners around the world with this epic new musical moment and we can’t wait to see what they’ve got in store next on their exciting musical journey.

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