Saint Jude, a South London musician/producer, is thrilled to share his new tune ‘Garden’, which features Fredwave. They also release an AI-generated visualiser produced in partnership with visual artist Finn Rabbitt Dove.
Saint Jude returns with his first new music of 2022, combining post-dubstep production methods with a vocal delivery and song structure that convey the pounding ferocity of noise-rock. “Take me to the garden, let me take part in your games”, rings his opaque vocals over undulating synths.
‘Garden’ began as an instrumental tune that Saint Jude frequently experimented with before Fredwave offered his vocals and the music fell totally into place. ‘Garden,’ loosely based on John Berger’s novel G, grapples with the paradoxes of time: how it distorts our perceptions and how love may appear to hurry up or slow down time.
“Working with Fred is always inspiring,” Jude says of the collaboration. “He’s got a sick energy to make music with.” Fredwave added: “Garden is a by-product of a few trips across London, two dreams colliding and failure to find a resolution on my behalf. Love you Jude!’
Saint Jude suffers from a debilitating condition of tinnitus – an unwelcome hangover from his time as a DJ. This means that whilst he and his management team work hard to develop an in-ear monitor system that eases Jude’s condition, it remains unsure whether Jude will be able to deliver these songs to a live audience, a key facet of the job for any breaking artist.
Flashes of Joy Orbison, Mount Kimbie and James Blake are all audible in Jude’s output, although, in truth, the ambition of this project reaches far beyond a mood board of musical reference points. Through ‘Garden’, and his canon of tracks that are yet to be made public, Saint Jude employs and repurposes tropes from an endless conveyor belt of genres; with dub, punk, electronica and hip-hop all contributing to create a sound that is permeated with the sounds of Jude’s South London home.