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The Rose Gardener is the fourth album by Bellows

and the like — songwriter Joseph Stevens weaves personal stories into the wider fabric of the natural world

somehow both calculated and carefree with its breezy and bright character

never laboring longer than necessary

the budding San Francisco group disbanded indefinitely

Standards - Fruit Island Cassette Color:White The Rose Gardener is theLed by the exuberant melodies of cross tapping guitarist Marcos Mena, the LA duo standards make meticulous instrumental math rock whose effervescent riffs teem with sunny enthusiasm. On the band's debut full length, Fruit Island, standards deftly retool math rock's unforgiving, challenging tendencies into a style that is both danceable and compositionally profound. Drummer Forrest Rice's boisterous chops complement Mena's unpredictable melodies,