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Virtual Garden

by Isla Den

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    - 6 album tracks + 2 bonus remixes on fluorescent-green Super-Ferro music grade tape
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1.
Beings 02:51
Look at these Coordinates I don’t know where love is Endlessly Wandering Through a long night Finally Figured out That it’s a long way down Look at my Innocence Making your mark on it Look at these Coordinates I don’t know where it broke down Hesitate Auto-wait Then I’ve lost sight Finally Figured out That it’s a long way down Look at my Innocence Making your mark on it Maybe it’s cool if we flip the switch I have to stop my indifference Weight in my chest just to hold me down I float away when you’re not around I must’ve restarted Before you found the way in Only one I’ve wanted To merge with being To merge with being To merge with being To merge with being Maybe it’s cool if we flip the switch I have to stop my indifference Weight in my chest just to hold me down I float away when you’re not around I must’ve restarted Before you found the way in Only one I’ve wanted To merge with being Running out of ways I had it I had it Innocence In your hands At the end
2.
Halcyon Run 03:06
Winter’s done I started to run And deep down I must have wanted to lose Running out of ways I had it I had it Halcyon I would run Floating only to caution myself Morphing slowly into someone else You can’t keep wasting and wasting my love You were The one When my heart turns blue I’ll hack the way out Ready when I walk out Head up for you You cannot keep wasting and wasting my love You are The one Winter’s done I started to run (When I turn to you) Frozen in my ways I wanted to choose (What else can I do) Lost in labyrinths I designed this Designed this (You said I’d get through) Halcyon I would run Floating only to caution myself Morphing slowly into someone else You can’t keep wasting and wasting my love You were The one When my heart turns blue I’ll hack the way out Ready when I walk out Head up for you You cannot keep wasting and wasting my love You are The one Halcyon Halcyon I wound run Halcyon Halcyon Floating only to caution myself Morphing slowly into someone else You can’t keep wasting and wasting my love You were The one When my heart turns blue I’ll hack the way out Ready when I walk out Head up for you You cannot keep wasting and wasting my love You are The one
3.
Sad Age 03:54
Just look around There’s nothing left When everything’s A sedative lately When I awoke Another dream From such height I’d never seen I made a mistake I couldn’t see That everything Fit perfectly (oh) When I awoke Another dream I know you’re laying there next to me From where I stand There’s solid ground Though all I know Has vanished completely When I awoke Another dream I tried to move But couldn’t leave I made a mistake I couldn’t see That everything Fit perfectly (oh) When I awoke Another dream I know you’re laying there next to me It’s just another dream It’s just another dream It’s just another dream It’s just another dream It’s just another dream It’s just another dream I had It’s just another dream It’s just another dream yeah Just look around There’s nothing left When everything’s A sedative lately When I awoke Another dream From such height I’d never seen I made a mistake (oh I made a mistake) I couldn’t see That everything Fit perfectly (oh) When I awoke Another dream I know you’re laying there next to me It’s just another dream It’s just another dream It’s just another dream It’s just another dream It’s just another dream It’s just another dream I had It’s just another dream It’s just another dream yeah It’s just another dream It’s another dream oh yeah Just another dream I had It’s another dream it’s another dream I had Just another dream just another dream I had It’s another dream just another dream I had It’s another dream just another dream I had It’s another dream just another dream I had It’s another dream just another dream just another dream I had I had (oh) Spiritual Suicide Into dust Innocence In the grasp Of your love No regret Painless Deliverance Waking up On the Internet From a save state It’s a lot To lose Once your under Digging up What you left On the surface Spiritual Suicide Into dust Breaking down Imminent In a Sad age
4.
Hyperlow 03:36
I’m grounded into you We turned it into dust I don’t know why Went through the thick of it I don’t know when I don’t know where to turn I’m so far out And from the place I left I have no home I don’t know where to go There’s nowhere else And from the shade I see the sun is blue I don’t know where to go There’s nothing left The only way is down (I’m grounded into you) We saw beyond the veil I don’t know how I’ll lead the fight through hell I know that now With nowhere left to turn I’ll cover you And from the past I’ve learned to follow through With no where else to go And nothing left But from the shade I see that grass can grow With no where else to go And nothing left The only way is down (The only way is down) (The only way is down) (The only way is down) But I can only fall so far Down I’m going down (oh) The only way is down I’m grounded into you We turned it into dust I don’t know why Went through the thick of it I don’t know when I don’t know where to turn I’m so far out And from the place I left I have no home I don’t know where to go There’s nowhere else And from the shade I see the sun is blue I don’t know where to go There’s nothing left The only way is down (Don’t know why) (Don’t know when) (So far out) The only way is down I’m going down I’m going down
5.
In the water I waded towards you I put my heart out I’m ready for you to pull me under Under water It didn’t have to reach my nirvana To pull me under And just as you saw it rise Over your hardened tide I saw a ripple form Out on a distant star When you’ve hacked your wave And you’ve come along Say you’re at your best but I Know you’re at your depths alone Standing outward staring At an old familiar shore Message loud repeating Factory reset it all Reset it all Reset it all Reset it all Reset it all In the water I made it towards you I put my heart out I’m ready for you to pull me under Under water It didn’t have to reach my nirvana To pull me under When you’ve hacked your wave And you’ve come along Say you’re at your best but I Know you’re at your depths alone Standing outward staring At an old familiar shore Message loud repeating Factory reset it all There in the water holding your hands out And just as you saw it rise Over your hardened tide I saw a ripple form (There in the water holding your hands out) Out on a distant start When you’ve hacked your wave And you’ve come along Say you’re at your best but I Know you’re at your depths alone Standing outward staring At an old familiar shore Message loud repeating Factory reset it all In the water I made it towards you I put my heart out I’m ready for you to pull me under There in the water holding your hands out
6.
Forest Armor 04:21
(Another seed to grow) Promises break down Promises of the perfect form But it’s so hard alone Body is lagging And you’re loading Fear of a wasted life How could you stop yourself From breaking down online All of this armor With your guard up Take it off What you moulded When you lost Everything you stood for Creation Even the strong can crumble How could I wait forever Prophetic visions Focus that’s wasted in the web In the simulation Body is weighted But I’m floating Fear of a wasted life How could you stop yourself From breaking down online All of this armor With your guard up Take it off What you moulded When you lost Everything you stood for Creation Even the strong can crumble How could I wait forever How could wait for you How could I wait for every combination to lose its truth When you’re lost From the sun I will try To excavate you Nature’s lost Buried seeds I will try To grow another you To grow another you Creation Anything strong can crumble Everything you stood for Creation Anything strong can crumble Everything you stood for (Far too soft)
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about

The music of Montreal electronica duo Isla Den is as much about mythology as melody, constructing surreal realms to house their rave-refracted pop and exploratory multimedia. Founders Ellie Manning and Mira Reale met while students at Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD U), bonding over a shared fascination with 3D environments and hybrid-tech designs. Virtual Garden, their latest collection, completes a trilogy begun in 2018, situating the project as both band and utopian destination – “when the world broke apart... this is where we came.”

Inspired variously by video game landscapes, lore, and Charli XCX, Virtual Garden took shape across the early months of 2020, in tandem with COVID-19 sweeping North America. With increasingly fewer IRL distractions to slow the process, they moved to incorporate an eclectic network of online collaborators. Among those enlisted were U.K. enigma Sun Angels, 777tv associate Niilas, three key members of Toronto's Bedroomer collective (Wizard Of, Carson Teal, Hudson Alexander), and long-time mentor Beau Sorenson. These contributions lend a lushness and fluidity to the tracks, refining the allure of the album's artificial paradise.

But Isla Den are just as interested in way-finding as they are world-building. Despite its Edenic premise of escapism, sanctuary, and regeneration, the EP maintains a more nuanced mood of emotional ambiguity. Manning's lyrics hone in on themes of endlessness, distance, and dreams, clouded with auto-tune and swooning over sensuous futurist frameworks fusing trap and technicolor pop: “Look at these coordinates, I don't where love is / endlessly wandering, through a long night / finally figured out, that it's a long way down.”

At the crossroads of blissful and wistful, Isla Den's music serves as both siren song and beautiful illusion, uncanny but untouchable, a feedback loop of holographic longing.

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released December 11, 2020

All songs written by Ellie Manning and Mira Reale (except "Haclyon Run"), written by Ellie Manning, Mira Reale and Derek Hoffman)
Performed by Isla Den
Produced by Isla Den
Additional production by Kenta204 ("Beings"), Derek Hoffman ("Halcyon Run"), WizardOf ("Halcyon Run"), Sun Angels, ("Sad Age"), Niilas ("Hyperlow" & "Forest Armor"), Marcioz ("Cloud [Reset]"), Carson Teal ("Cloud [Reset]"), Beaunoise ("Forest Armor"), Estle ("Forest Armor")
Recorded at Intergalactic Travel Authority (Toronto, ON)
Mixed by Mira Reale, except "Hyperlow" mixed by Hudson Alexander and Mira Reale
Mastered by Justin Perkins at Mystery Room
Artwork by Isla Den + 5outho

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