The boys in Paddle Boat mentioned the Santa Barbara-based Gardens & Villa to me last year, having played a house show with them while touring up the coast in early 2010. An email from our Indigenous friends in Los Angeles reminded me to give them a listen, and to say the least, I'm impressed. Here's two tracks off their forthcoming record, due out on Secretly Canadian this summer. Catch Gardens & Villa at The Casbah this Wednesday opening for Tapes n' Tapes or 04.29 at Soda Bar with Cuckoo Chaos.