Garden Song soaks The Spikes’ art house romance in Tuscan terrace heat

There is a sharper glint to The Spikes in Garden Song, the latest single and official video from Rome-raised singer-songwriter, poet and painter Iago Haussman. Growing up around film sets has clearly rewired his sense of drama, and it shows here. His earlier work already hinted at this instinct, from the stark unease in Guns for the Children to the slow-burn control games of Dancing In the Palm of My Hand, but Garden Song moves that cinematic fixation into a more amorous frame. Far from your average indie crooner fare, The Spikes impale aesthetics of neo pop and post punk while emanating the suave magnetism of the Walkmen through an intrinsically cinematically amorous lens; it is the kind of track that is made for an art house OST; as it summons the seduction that blossoms between lovers on a Tuscan terrace, desire drives itself through lustrously layered instrumentals. The guitars shimmer like heat haze over stone, the rhythm section keeps everything steadily smouldering, and Haussman’s vocal sits right in the pocket, louche and unhurried, as if he has already seen how the scene ends. The video leans into that same mood, part diary, part fever dream, all slow tilt towards […]

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