New York band Monobloc share debut single ‘Where Is My Garden’

New York band Monobloc have shared their debut single ‘Where Is My Garden’, ahead of making their UK festival debut later this year.

The spiky, urgent track shows that Monobloc could next in line to become one of the Big Apple’s great bands, with its official release coming after excited internet chatter about the group emerged earlier this year.

The group is helmed by vocalist Timothy Waldron and Michael Silverglade on bass, with an official release describing them as ” two friends with a shared ear for merging pop sensibilities”.

Michael said of the song: “I wrote the guitar riff years ago, long before Monobloc was even a thing. We’ve never had more iterations of a single song idea, it just never came together. Yet, I persevered, and after we wrote the first couple of Monobloc tracks, we dug up the old demo.”

Tim added: “Attached to the main riff of the song was this chorus I really wanted to use but could never find a place where it made sense. ‘Where is my garden, where are my friends? Will it always feel like the end?’ It was a great wide theme – a bit Springsteen and better yet, the closest I could legally get to saying ‘Where are your friends tonight.’

The group – completed by Zack Pockrose on drums, and guitarists Ben Scofield and Nina Lüders, make their UK festival debut this August at London’s All Points East in support of LCD Soundsystem, with a warm-up show planned a couple of days before at the capital’s Sebright Arms.