Garden Variety - Garden Variety LITTLE SIMZ and Ray Barretto on congas

and Ray Barretto on congas for a six-song set that yielded one of his most memorable themes with the cool struttin’ title track

Ear-catching hook after hook is loaded across the album's eight tracks

“what it evokes and invokes and what it is serving

Mereba first came up through the hyperactive underground music scene in Atlanta

” Cumming channelled Iggy Pop circa The Idiot

Garden Variety - Garden Variety LITTLE SIMZ and Ray Barretto on congasThe 1993 split point between pop punk and emo is no better illustrated than by Garden Varietys self titled debut. While Billy and Bivouac flirted with the mainstream, this Long Island trio proposed at the post hardcore prom. Muscular octave guitar chug with a side of late night zine work at the local diner. Backbeat heartbreak, hold the FX. Thank Charles Maggio for your favorite record next time you see him at the Paramus mall.