Teen Daze is a stage name for solo musician Jamison Isaak. His first albums were released in 2010, attracting the attention of online music press outlets such as Pitchfork Media. Signing with Lefse Records, he released the full-length All of Us Together in 2012, followed quickly by Glacier in 2013. On his 2015 John Vanderslice-produced album Morning World, Teen Daze shifted from an electronic-driven style with elements of chillwave, house, and ambient to more of an indie pop sound, adding his own vocals.
After last year's foray into vibrant indie-pop, Themes finds Teen Daze returning to more ambient, electronic production with new insight: "I learned so much from the experience making Morning World, it would be a step backwards if I didn't apply it." This comes through in songs like "Lost", "Rising" and the first single, "Cycle", which fuse the synthesized sound of early Teen Daze records with the live energy of his more recent works. Themes is also distinct in its collaborative nature. Jamison has worked with other artists in the past, but never to this degree and expanse: "Making the last record alongside other people helped me realize that inviting additional minds to the creative process brings out the best in me."
Conceptually and thematically, this album is one of Jamison's most personal, navigating topics both intimate and broad: "Much of my work is inspired by nature, and it's scary to think that future generations may not have that same relationship. The album starts with Cycle, a song about my personal experience dealing with anxiety and depression, and it slowly zooms out to cover some of the external forces, like climate change, that are affecting those experiences. After touring last fall, I came home so cynical and worn out, I decided take all the nervous energy I had about the world, and filter it through more optimistic, positive sounds.".
Garden 2
Teen Daze Lyrics
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I will bring the water to your heart.
The lyrics to Teen Daze’s song ‘Garden 2’ are symbolic in nature and depict a beautiful representation of a relationship. The singer first compares love to a garden, which can be seen as a metaphor for how love requires care, attention, and nurturing to thrive. Just like a garden needs watering, sunshine, and pruning to grow and bloom, love needs time, care, patience, and understanding to thrive.
In the next line, the singer promises to bring water to the other person’s heart. This line can be interpreted in a few ways; one way of seeing it is that the singer is promising to provide emotional support and nourishment to the other person. Another interpretation is that the singer is acknowledging the vulnerability and sensitivity of love as he promises to be gentle and caring with the other person’s emotions. Overall, these lyrics convey a sentiment of how a relationship can flourish with mutual care and nurturing.
Line by Line Meaning
Your love is a garden.
Your affection is something that needs nurturing and attention, much like how a garden needs watering and care.
I will bring the water to your heart.
I will give you the care and attention you need in order to feel loved and nurtured, much like how water is what helps a garden thrive.
Contributed by Jacob W. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Pauline Alvarez
Hello, I just wanted to say that I'm reading through my old Tumblr, and I've found an old playlist of mine that included this song, your song. I'm kinda crying right now lol. Listening to this felt cathartic. It transported me to this certain point in time where I was just starting out into the world as an artist. Trying to figure out things. A magical feeling.
pepesli
i like very much this LP! I vote for it in "blogovision"- yearly music album charts in Greece, by bloggers! you can search for Blogovision 2012 results on google, if intrested. you will find nice fresh music there.
Chris Sheng
<3
Pauline Alvarez
Whimsical.
wherearemybones2
Best Teen Daze song.