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# 🎵 Always There
- URL: https://helpful-koala.pikapod.net/always-there/
- Published: 2022-07-27T01:31:50.000Z
- Updated: 2023-05-14T11:41:55.000Z
- Description: The Churchhill Garden are inspired by one of the best periods in alternative music.
- Author: Robert Rackley
- Tags: Noise, #Import 2023-01-23 01:24, #Import 2023-05-05 21:23, #Import 2023-05-12 14:50, #robert-2, #Import 2023-08-31 00:31, #Import 2023-10-06 03:55, #Import 2023-11-16 01:27, #Import 2023-12-08 12:54, #Import 2024-09-14 17:57, #Import 2024-12-17 20:04, #Import 2025-01-01 18:26, #Import 2025-12-24 10:01, #Import 2026-07-11 23:34, #Import 2026-08-02 01:19, #Import 2026-09-14 17:25

The first thing that hits you from Swiss outfit The Churchhill Garden's "Always There" are the reverb(y) guitars. Before too long, though, you find yourself entranced by the saccharine sweetness of American lead singer Krissy Vanderwoude's vocals, which bring to mind Velocity Girl's Sarah Shannon. As Vanderwoude sings about "kindness, patience and grace," it's marvelous to get a little twee go along with the richness of her honeyed tone.

I liked last year's single, "Grounded" by the band, but there's nothing of the bite from that song here. I could easily imagine "Always There" as a feature track on a 1992 episode of 120 Minutes and Churchhill Garden perhaps opening for peak-of-their-powers era Lush. Now, they just have to put out a full-length!

[always there by the churchhill garden](https://thechurchhillgarden.bandcamp.com/track/always-there?ref=helpful-koala.pikapod.net) 

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As a bonus, here is The Churchhill Garden's cover of The Cure track "Halo," from the b-side of the "Friday I'm In Love" single, where they riff on "Pictures Of You" at the end. The collected b-sides from the *Wish* album is one of my favorite groups of songs, so this is such a treat.

[halo (the cure cover version) by the churchhill garden](https://thechurchhillgarden.bandcamp.com/track/halo-the-cure-cover-version?ref=helpful-koala.pikapod.net)