Chloe Davidson’s ‘This Is Our Garden’ is an intimate and expansive sophomore record: rooted in Davidson’s inimitable and introspective songwriting voice, and radiating outwards with warm, invitational kindness.
Throughout its eleven tracks, the powerful duality of Davidson’s arrangement talents are on full display: whispered, intimate mantras (‘Night Sparrow, ‘On a Quiet Day’) blossom into multi-layered, overlapping jubilant harmonies (‘Away’, ‘What Do We Do’); atmospheric meditations (‘Almost There’, ‘I Will Not be Dimmed’) fold into angular, playful celebrations of self and community (‘Hold It Together’, ‘This is Our Garden’). Paired again with producer Andrew Judah, Davidson’s sense of melodic storytelling—both vocally, and with her trademark, virtuosic violin-playing—is given room to soar, inspire, and perhaps even defy understanding: “these melodies, well, they’re an honest mystery”, Chloe muses to herself on album highlight ‘All of This’.
