Following the recent release of their highly praised sophomore album Maybe Not Tonight, out now via So Young Records, Brighton four-piece Lime Garden return today with the video for their focus single ‘Cross My Heart’.
Directed by Sal Redpath, the video captures the band in a playful, performance-led setting that takes its cue from the album’s artwork – bringing it to life with a loose, instinctive live energy.
Musically, ‘Cross My Heart’ taps into the band’s love of late ’80s Hacienda-era club culture combined with a dose of indie-sleaze – think Stone Roses meets Yeah Yeah Yeahs (in the bathroom!) – with an infectious hook and even a splash of bongos, making it one of the most ‘live’ sounding moments on the record. Lyrically, it captures that bittersweet rush of freedom after ending a relationship – the release, the doubt, and the thrill of taking back control.
Speaking about the track, frontwoman Chloe Howard said, “A breakup is never easy, but afterwards I experience this initial rush of freedom. Maybe partly due to rediscovering who I am – little bits I’d suppressed for love or the illusion of love! It’s about promising myself I won’t lose my sense of identity the next time!”
Unfolding like a night out from start to finish, Maybe Not Tonight captures the blur of youth in real time – the rush, the chaos, the self-doubt and the comedown. Expanding far beyond the raw immediacy of their 2024 debut One More Thing, the band step into a more intricate, fully realised sound, expanding their signature “wonk-pop” instincts into something sharper, stranger and more emotionally exposed. The result is their most intoxicating and luminous material to date.
Written in the aftermath of what the band describe as a collective “mass breakup”, Maybe Not Tonight channels a period of personal upheaval into something both communal and cathartic. Across its ten tracks, Lime Garden grapple with grief, drinking, body image and self-esteem, all while leaning into a knowingly reckless sense of escapism. Produced by Charlie Andrew, with additional production from drummer Annabel Whittle, the record weaves together glitchy vocal fragments, hypnotic drum patterns, wiry guitars and detuned synths into something richly layered yet instinctively immediate.
The record has already drawn widespread praise, with DIY calling it “a vibrant, gleefully messy record that positively thrums with life,” while NME hailed it as “a banging indie soundtrack.” Clash described it as “a hazy dissection of the feeling of getting older,” with Rolling Stone UK noting how the band “dip into dance, punk, straight-up indie and beyond,” and Wonderland praising its “gloriously, deliberately unpolished” edge.
Following the release of Maybe Not Tonight, Lime Garden are now preparing to head out on a run of UK and EU tour dates this autumn.
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