Jacco Gardner

Though he was born in Hoorn, Netherlands during 1989, Jacco Gardner sounds as if he were alive in 1967 soaking in all the baroque pop and toytown psych that were taking over pop music at the time. Inspired by groups like the Zombies and the Left Banke, the multi-instrumentalist released his first single ("Clear the Air"/"A House on the Moon") in 2012 for the Spanish label Action Weekend, then appeared with the neo-psych group Bombay Show Pig on the one-sided single "Get Lost in the Shuffle" for the Dutch label Excelsior Recordings, before rounding out the year with a single ("Where Will You Go"/"Summer's Game") for the American label Trouble in Mind. He also began recording his first album in 2012 at his own Shadow Shoppe Studio, playing almost all the instruments by himself save the drums, which were done by Jos van Tol. Also helping out with the pre-mastering was Jan Audier, who had worked with Dutch pop and psych bands the Motions, Golden Earring, and Q 65 in the '60s. The completed album, Cabinet of Curiosities, was released in early 2013 by Trouble in Mind.