Lime Garden

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Lime Garden
Origin Guildford and Brighton, UK
Genres
Years active2017–present
Labels So Young
Members
  • Chloe Howard
  • Leila Deeley
  • Tippi Morgan
  • Annabel Whittle
Website limegarden.bandcamp.com

Lime Garden are a British indie rock band from Brighton. Self described as "wonk pop", [1] the band blend a number of genres including disco, pop and surf.

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History

Meeting originally in Guildford, the band changed its name from LIME in Brighton. [2] They are signed to So Young Records, a partner label of Communion Records.

Named as one of NME’s top 100 artists for 2022, [3] the band has had mainstream coverage in the national press including The Independent, [4] Dork, [5] and Clash Magazine. [6] They have played UK festivals including Latitude, Reading and Leeds Festival, Green Man Festival and Standon Calling and have toured with other artists including IDLES, Sunflower Bean and Yard Act.

On 13 September 2023, Lime Garden announced their debut studio album One More Thing , to be released on 16 February 2024. They have since released four singles for the album: "Nepotism (Baby)", "Love Song", "I Want to Be You" and "Mother".

Members

Discography

Lime Garden discography
Studio albums1
Singles12

Albums

List of albums
TitleYear
One More Thing 2024

Singles

List of singles
TitleYearAlbum
"Surf N Turf"2020Non-album singles
"Fever"
"Sick & Tired"2021
"Pulp"
"Clockwork"
"Marbles"2022
"Bitter"
"Nepotism (Baby)"2023One More Thing
"Love Song"
"I Want to Be You"
"Mother"2024
"Pop Star"

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References

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  3. "The NME 100 essential emerging artists for 2022". NME. 7 January 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
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