We wondered where Santa Barbara-spawned, now LA-resident, Gardens & Villa had wandered off to.  Now we know.  The band is back with a brazen new track, Fixation, from their impending new album Music For Dogs on Secretly Canadian. According to the boys’ press release, the album “is a deeply personal album that pokes, prods, and even strangely celebrates the zeitgeist of music commerce, pleasure culture, technological advances and the new home they’ve found in Los Angeles.”

We’ve had Fixation on repeat, and yes, we have become fixated with it.  We love the pounding keyboards and ethereal vocals, and pretty much everything about it.  The keys and chorus (“My whole life fixation/See if we can make it underneath the radar”) mesh perfectly on the song, which is said to be “a song about the beauty in bottoming out and then finding the false bottom.”  To our ears the song sounds like a great mashup of Animal Collective, The Cars and Tame Impala.

Music For Dogs was produced by Jacob Portrait (Unknown Mortal Orchestra) and band members Adam Rasmussen and Chris Lynch are joined on it by the rousing rhythm section of Dusty Ineman (drums) and Shane McKillop (bass).

You can pre-order Music For Dogs HERE.

Gardens & Villa Tour Dates (Tix HERE)

Fri. June 26 – Los Angeles, CA @ Center For The Arts, Eagle Rock
Tue. Sept. 15 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
Thu. Sept. 17 – Austin, TX @ The Parish
Fri. Sept. 18 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
Sat. Sept. 19 – Houston, TX @ House of Blues/Bronze Peacock
Sun. Sept. 20 – New Orleans @ Gasa Gasa
Tue. Sept. 22 – Atlanta, GA @ Aisle 5
Wed. Sept. 23 – Carrboro, NC @ Cats Cradle
Thu. Sept. 24 – Washington, DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel
Fri. Sept. 25 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Sat. Sept. 26 – Philadelphia, PA @ Boot & Saddle
Tue. Sept. 29 – Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
Wed. Sept. 30 – Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz PDB
Thu. Oct. 1 – Toronto, ON @ The Garrison
Fri. Oct. 2 – Detroit, MI @ UFO Factory
Sat. Oct. 3 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
Sun. Oct. 4 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St. Entry
Tue. Oct. 6 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
Wed. Oct. 7 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
Thu. Oct. 8 – Las Vegas, NV @ Bunkhouse Saloon
Fri. Oct. 9 – San Diego, CA @ IRENIC