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On their second full-length LP, The Garment District delivers a Kunstkabinett of sound reminiscent of the Manhattan neighborhood (and others around the globe, both existing and shuttered) with which they share a name. Just as one might wander through a Garment District shop entranced by a staggering display of fabric from seemingly every era and locale, surrounded by rows of buttons, threads and trimmings, listeners will be equally entranced by the hypnotic array of textured sounds on Flowers Telegraphed to All Parts of the World. The album was recorded in a friend's home studio nestled in the labyrinthian hills of Western Pennsylvania during the time warp surrounding the pandemic. For composer and arranger Jennifer Baron (who plays numerous instruments on the album), settling in at David Klug's studio atop Pittsburgh's Mount Washington allowed her to stretch and challenge herself, creating expansive arrangements. In another lifetime, just miles away within nearby hills and hamlets, Jennifer's great-grandfather arrived from Zagreb, forming a family band, a tamburitza orchestra featuring her grandfather, great-aunt and great-uncles, who performed in Monongahela Valley steel towns. Jennifer's work with her first cousin Lucy Blehar, who supplies lead vocals, continues this family music-making heritage. Along with guitar, bass and drums, listeners will encounter a full suite of strings, horns, a variety of percussion, and finely woven keyboards and vocals. Some parts were improvised on-site, while others evolved at home, highlighting Jennifer's collection of analog keyboards before being translated into final recordings. Having the opportunity to experiment with equipment borrowed from friends, like a rare 1970s Roland Paraphonic 505 and a 1960s UMI Buzz Tone Volume Expander, shaped the exploratory process of crafting dimensional melodies and instrumentation. The result is a gilded tapestry of pop music history that is both panoramic and idiosyncratic.

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• Limited to 500 copies on bright orange vinyl.
• For Fans of: Os Mutantes, Free Design, Elephant 6, Ladybug Transistor, Stereolab, Broadcast

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Our friends over at HHBTM will be releasing a new record from the Garment District (Jennifer Baron of Ladybug Transistor) this September, and there's been a delightful single fluttering about you would likely enjoy. There's about a minute of ambiance, opening the video and flirting with imagery, but, it just seems to be hanging on the edges, eventually fading away to let the song run in with this mixture of bounding pop and psychedelia; singer Lucy Blehars voice shines through it all, hitting these crystalline notes that land perfectly in the mix. The track moves back and forth between bits of softly curled elegance and that stomping psych boogie, so you get all my favorite pieces tied into this musical trip that rewards time and time again.

     —Nathan Lankford, Austin Town Hall

When we were last covering music from the Garment District they were blending psychedelia and bits of disco to kind of create this cool amalgam of pop vibes. This time, they're straight into the pop realm, kicking out a thumping groove from the get-go. It

     —Nathan Lankford, Austin Town Hall

A project helmed by Elephant 6 affiliate Jennifer Baron, of the Ladybug Transistor, free-spirited psych-pop purveyors The Garment District present Flowers Telegraphed to All Parts of the World. The set was recorded in a friend's rural Pennsylvania home st

     —All Music

The new album from The Garment District is a smashing of genres and its own genre. Fronted by Jennifer Baron, late of The Ladybug Transistor, the band's music has an Elephant 6-like vibe, and Flowers Telegraphed to All Parts of the World is a robust delig

     —Glenn Griffith, A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed

Today, we are debuting The Garment District's bold new track 'A Street Called Finland' lifted from their forthcoming album Flowers Telegraphed to All Parts of the World out on Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records on the 22nd of September. Hook laden and str

     —Bill Cummings, God Is In the TV

The result is fairly extraordinary, a song that seems to exist on ever-shifting sands without ever stumbling, throughout instruments enter, play their part and then never leave, the whole thing building to a melodic cacophony, before a distorted Wurlitzer

     —For the Rabbits

The spark plug that fires The Garment District's engine is multi-instrumentalist Jennifer Baron, though on new album Flowers Telegraphed to All Parts of the World, she gets a big assist from her cousin Lucy Blehar, who handles lead vocals across seven of

     —Joseph Neff, The Vinyl District

The Garment District is the music of multi-instrumentalist and indie-scene mad-scientist Jennifer Baron, a founding member of Brookyln's The Ladybug Transistor. Baron is a busy woman, and her resume in indie psychedelic music and other artistic pursuits i

     —Third Eye Psychedelic Mag

The Garment District showcases brilliantly how the very fabrics of constructs created in previous eras can be synthesized into new artifices of unbridled splendor. The wax, tapes and compact discs from your siblings, parents, grandparents, step-parents, a

     —Sjimon Gompers, Week In Pop

Following Me has a 60's soundtrack feel, on this cover of a song by The Human Expression, It now sounds crossed with Viva Saturn or Opal, this is sun dappled dense layered magical music to wander around hoping the object of your desire starts to follow yo

     —Simon Phillips, Whisperin & Hollerin