The Clogs
The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton
Brassland
The biggest accomplishment of The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton is the album’s astounding cohesion, despite being composed, recorded, and mixed over the course of five years and two continents. The collection, composed by Padma Newsome, manages to create ten songs that are both clearly individual works and pieces of the same story. That story is whimsically enchanting to an almost impossibly realized degree. It plays like a soundtrack of sorts, but what it is a soundtrack to is what is of importance. At its best, the soundtrack to Grimm’s Fairy Tales… at its worst, to Disney’s. – Izzy Cihak