I Need to Start a Garden

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I Need to Start a Garden
Haley Heynderickx - I Need to Start a Garden.png
Studio album by
Haley Heynderickx
ReleasedMarch 9, 2018 (2018-03-09)
StudioNomah Studios, Portland, Oregon
Genre
Length30:56
Label Mama Bird Recording Co.
Producer Zak Kimball
Haley Heynderickx chronology
I Need to Start a Garden
(2018)		Seed of a Seed
(2024)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic? (7.6/10) [2]
Metacritic 80/100 [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
DIY Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Exclaim! 8/10 [6]
MusicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Pitchfork 7.3/10 [8]
PopMatters 7/10 [9]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]

I Need to Start a Garden is the debut studio album by American musician Haley Heynderickx. It was released in March 2018 under Mama Bird Recording Company.

Contents

Production

In an interview, Haley Heynderickx explained it took three attempts to record the album. Her first attempt was at Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, Oregon, with musician Colyn Cameron. However, a horse had passed away during one of her songs. She explained, "I lost faith in the songs and myself. The horse died". The second was at a conventional studio, but Heynderickx felt inhibited by insecurity and worries about money from the cost of the studio: "It doesn't feel like a labour of love when every moment you're in a studio it feels like you're losing money. The last thing I want to think about when capturing songs that were made from a place of love, is money." Her third attempt was made at Nomah Studios – an in-house licensing studio set up by Heynderickx's friends. [11]

Music video

On May 2, 2018, the music video of "No Face" was released. In a statement, Heynderickx explained the song was inspired by the 2001 Japanese animated movie Spirited Away . [12] The video was directed by Evan James Atwood. [13]

Critical reception

I Need to Start a Garden was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 80 based on 10 reviews. [3] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release an 80 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 9 reviews. [1]

Marcy Donelson of AllMusic said: "With eight tracks and a playing time of 30 minutes, it's an efficient debut without a weak song in the bunch, one noteworthy for its poise as well as its engaging eccentricity." [4]

Accolades

Accolades for I Need to Start a Garden
PublicationAccoladeRank
Digital Trends Digital Trends' Top 50 Albums of 2018
17 [14]
Exclaim! Exclaim!'s Top 10 Folk and Country Albums of 2018
4 [15]
God Is in the TV God Is in the TV's Top 100 Albums of 2018
22 [16]
Loud and Quiet Loud and Quiet's Top 40 Albums of 2018
27 [17]
Paste Paste's Top 50 Albums of 2018
30 [18]
Paste's Top 20 Albums of 2018 – Mid-Year
7 [19]
PopMatters PopMatters's Top 20 Albums of 2018
8 [20]
SputnikmusicSputnikmusic's Top 100 Albums of the Decade (2010s)
56 [21]
The Wild Honey PieThe Wild Honey Pie's Top 30 Albums of 2018
10 [22]
Uproxx Uproxx's Top 50 Albums of 2018
25 [23]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Haley Heynderickx.

No.TitleLength
1."No Face"1:56
2."The Bug Collector"3:48
3."Jo"3:52
4."Worth It"7:53
5."Show You a Body"3:29
6."Untitled God Song"3:44
7."Oom Sha La La"2:57
8."Drinking Song"3:16

Personnel

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