Darkly romantic and steeped in candlelit dread, Canyon of Blood is the new full-length album from The Garden Gate. Built around brooding string arrangements, vintage synthesizers, and harpsichord-toned textures, the record conjures a lush, haunted landscape, part western mirage, part baroque hallucination. Laced with 60s occult psych influences and underpinned by dusty drum machines, Canyon of Blood feels like Morricone scoring a fever dream rather than a duel. It’s music that floats somewhere between séance and romance, heavy with myth and mood.

Timmi Meskers, based in North Country, New York, is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores themes of memory, mysticism, and decay. As The Garden Gate, she channels influences from the occult revival and late-60s counterculture into a sound that is tender, theatrical, and just a little cursed. Canyon of Blood available July 18th on limited edition “Blood Marble” vinyl, via Library of the Occult.

For fans of Mort Garson, Wendy Carlos, and the darker corners of Morricone.