The Garden: Bootleg [EPITAPH]

Why you'll love it

The sixth album from twin brothers Wyatt and Fletcher Shears, fourteen short, sharp tracks on Epitaph. It's the Orange County duo's do-anything mix of punk, hip hop and electronics, from "Ugly" and "Pin Drop" to "Hansel And Gretel".

This edition

• Fourteen tracks across two sides, from "Ugly" to "Hansel And Gretel"

About the album

The Garden are twin brothers Wyatt and Fletcher Shears from Orange County, California, and for more than a decade they've filed their music under a genre of their own invention, "vada vada", which roughly means doing whatever they like. Bootleg, their sixth album, carries on in that spirit: punk drums, hip hop beats, electronic squelches and Wyatt's snotty, sing-song vocals, often all in the same minute.

Songs like "5 Mile Ponytail", "White Cadillac" and "The Kockroach" rarely outstay their welcome, and the whole thing has the energy of a sketchbook flipped at speed. They took it on tour with Thaiboy Digital and Ghost Mountain, which tells you a lot about their audience. Not one of these songs is the same genre as the one before it; we checked, and then we gave up checking.

Tracklist

Listen

Out October 23, 2026 on Epitaph (cat# 88200).