RENEE CATRINE RELEASES NEW ALBUM "FROM THE GARDEN"

If you’re looking for albums you missed from 2023, look no further than Brooklyn artist Renée Catrine’s album From the Garden. The indie pop album shines through the 11 tracks fluctuating between acoustic and true indie rock songs. 

The bold new album embraces a complex combination of playful and brooding, exploring themes of movement, reflection, and perseverance, and leaving the listener to contemplate, “What is enough?” through warm and soothing vocals, richly orchestrated instrumentation, and captivating storytelling. 

Catrine’s voice seems to float over the music at times, the opening track “Moment” talks about trying to capture a singular moment that you want to go back to and freeze time forever. We all wish we could stop time and not have to think about the future and the way time moves through experiences you wish you could stay in forever or feelings you could bottle. The instruments are incredibly dancy and the guitar grooves make it hard to listen to the song and not want to dance around. 

She talks about the album being inspired by Paulina Olowska’s Wisteria at the New York’s Metro Picture Gallery, how there are so many different flowers in the same garden and how flowers don’t look the same day to day. She aims to do the same with the album; show the way songs change but can exist on the same album and tell the same story. An example of this is how about midway through the album there’s a song entitled “Winter Town”, which is much more indie and poppy than the next song “Les Laurentides”, a slow acoustic ballad entirely in French. It’s a very interesting change of pace through the record because it is the only one that is not in English. 

In the penultimate song “Enough” she asks to contemplate just how far you could actually reach if you believed you were enough to reach it.

“The heights we could rise/ If we dared just to begin/ How far we could run/ If we dared just this time to believe/We were enough”

The theme of dreams, moments, and reflection echo through this entire album. 

The 11 track trip through the garden ends with “The Closing” which is a song full of bells and Renée’s voice descending much quieter, and the song travels through the closing thoughts. If you’re looking for a new indie artist to listen to, Catrine’s album will definitely not disappoint.