Erhard, Anna / Botanical Garden
Album: Botanical Garden   Collection:A-File
Artist:Erhard, Anna   Added:Sep 2024
Label:Radicalis Music  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2024-12-17 Pull Date: 2025-03-18
Week Ending: Feb 2 Jan 26 Jan 19 Jan 12 Jan 5 Dec 29 Dec 22
Airplays: 4 1 1 2 1 3 1

Recent Airplay
1. Feb 01, 2025: Buford J. Sharkley Presents: As Told to Hervey Okkles
B.M.G. Academy
4. Jan 27, 2025: Virtually Happy
Teeth on the King, Package
2. Feb 01, 2025: Music Casserole
Teeth on the King
5. Jan 24, 2025: KZSU Time Traveler
Botanical Garden
3. Jan 31, 2025: KZSU Time Traveler
Botanical Garden
6. Jan 16, 2025: Oh Messy Life
B.M.G. Academy

Album Review
Wallace Brontoon
Reviewed 2024-12-15
Singer-songwriter with noise-pop/post-punk/oddball sounds with dry comedic/satiric elements; Anna Erhard is based in Berlin (originally from Switzerland)--songs have some common threads: oddball/quirky timbres (synth and guitar) and a lot of sing-talking in her heavily accented voice; it's funny stuff, and also sounds rich and interesting and great--

RIYL Jonathan Richman, Courtney Barnett, Sonny Smith

1.
(3:09) ***** Midtempo, arch, warp-drumbeat stomping--addressed to a friend falsely claiming to be 170 cm (5'7") - "your parents are both quite lovely, but unfortunately they are also short"
2. (3:08) *** bright, driving tempo, about online reviews of a botanical garden; sunny chorus
3. (4:52) **** Sing-talking over a spare, walking guitar; mopey story about knowing a guy in the Blue Man Group; repetitive, turgid in amusing way--squonky buzzy guitar noise
4. (2:52) ***** Pretty, squeaky backing track; sing-talking through an anecdote about swimming in underwear--hypnotic effect
5. (3:09) **** Bleepy synth sounds with sing/talking anecdote about a neighbor having to deal with mailed packages; nicely atonal and noisy; fake fade-out with thirty-second final verse with more ominous drum-machine timbre
6. (3:39) **** Glitchy 80s sound, sing-talking about a "hot family"--"Oh my god, this family was hot"--upbeat tone
7. (3:22) **** Warpy-repetitive guitar riff, hypnotically under sing-talked song about finding money--country rock vibe with steel guitar or something
8. (2:52) **** Bright-colored but goofy-timber, funny story about realizing you're in your last cycle of reincarnation
9. (3:02) ** Minor-key dirge over clappy/clicky beat

Track Listing
1. 170 (3:09)   6. Hot Family (3:39)
2. Botanical Garden (3:09)   7. Stash (3:22)
3. B.M.G. Academy (4:52)   8. Not Rick (2:53)
4. Spa (2:53)   9. Teeth on the King (3:02)
5. Package (3:10)   .