London-born songwriter Ella Smoker recently signed to Secretly Canadian as gglum, and she’s now announced her debut album, The Garden Dream, due out on March 29 via her new label home. “At the time of writing it, I was having so many nightmares, just straight-up graphic and disturbing stuff,” she says. “I think it was my subconscious telling me I had shit I needed to deal with, a lot of the mistrust I’ve had since I was a teenager. It was weirdly good timing, because I’m at a point in my life now where I’m actually pretty happy, and am in a good place to look back.” See the cover art and tracklist below.
The Garden Dream includes previous singles “SPLAT!” and “Easy Fun,” and she’s shared two more. “Do You See Me Different,” featuring Kamal, is “about the confusion, chaos and deflation you feel during a difficult relationship,” Ella says, and “Glue” is about “the desperation of wanting a broken relationship to be fixed again. Frantically scrambling to ‘glue’ things back together, but also feeling hopeless and numbing out.” Hear both below.
GGLUM – THE GARDEN DREAM TRACKLIST
1. With You
2. SPLAT!
3. Late
4. Pruning 1
5. Pruning 2
6. Easy Fun
7. Glue
8. Second Best
9. He Laid His 97’s Neatly By The Door
10. Honeybee
11. Do You See Me Different? (Feat. Kamal)
12. Eating Rust
13. The Garden Dream