[2025-09-05] New Math "Gardens (Remastered And Expanded Edition)" (Propeller)

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Jun 13, 2025 11:24 pm

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Description
We are proud to unearth Gardens, the long-lost final release from cult post-punk outfit New Math, fully remastered and available for the first time ever on CD, in an eco-wallet with a full-color insert.

Originally intended for release in 1984, Gardens was dead on arrival. The small New York City-based label Brain Eater Records shut down just before the album’s planned release, leaving shrink-wrapped copies stranded in boxes, never shipped to stores. While some copies reached college radio across the U.S., most fans never had the chance to hear the album.

New Math’s Gardens is a moody, gothic-laced fever dream. A cinematic, genre-bending farewell recorded during a moment of creative reinvention. After turning down a modest major label offer from Columbia Records in early 1983, the Rochester-based group doubled down on their vision. Trading in the power-pop of early single “Die Trying” and the polished new wave aesthetic of the previous release “They Walk Among You,” the band pursued something more introspective and surreal. Inspired by Kenneth Anger films and American Gothic imagery, Gardens was recorded at PCI Studios in Rochester and captures a haunted, transitional moment as the band unraveled and reshaped itself.

Tracklist
1. The Flesh Element
2. Pipes Of Pan
3. Ominous Presence
4. Living On Borrowed Time
5. Love Under Will
6. Power Of The Air
7. Meets The Eye
8. Break Up The Dance
Bonus Tracks:
9. Wild Child (live) [Scorgies 12-1983]*
10. Go Devils (live) [Scorgies 12-1983]*
11. Double Cross (live) [Scorgies 12-1983]*
12. Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White (live) [Scorgies 09-30-1982]*
13. The Flesh Element (alternate 1983 version)

*Previously Unreleased Track

Packshot (click for full size):

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Jun 13, 2025 11:24 pm

"Ominous Presence"

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Jul 11, 2025 10:53 am

"Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White"

Linda · **Posted:** Sat Aug 16, 2025 1:59 pm

"Living On Borrowed Time"

Linda · **Posted:** Tue Sep 02, 2025 10:57 pm

"Love Under Will"

[2025-09-05] New Math "Gardens (Remastered And Expanded Edition)" (Propeller)

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