G A R D I N Gardins music is tender and furious in a minor that will remind you of Idaho, Low and Red House Painters. The extreme contrasts in the compositions however, derive from these comparisons as the openness of passages succeed with sudden solid walls of sound which are characterizing and typical of Gardins songs. Thus the music tends to be a friendly as well as an agressive base for lyrics that, mostly short and ungrabable, tell you about the individualist looking for answers.