Daiana Feuer on January 31st, 2017

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Tricksters Wyatt and Fletcher Shears revel in their own absurdity like dogs chewing rain. They look at life and music with enthusiasm for the moment and just want to chew it up as it falls down from the sky around them. The Garden brothers have a new EP coming March 3 via Epitaph called “U Want The Scoop?” produced by Rob Schnapf, whose credits include Elliot Smith and Beck (whom Schnapf discovered playing on the street at Sunset Junction). These five new songs come on as intensely as a carnival funhouse on acid. It’s fun, strange, colorful, a little bit scary. With a sonic palate reminiscent of a video game, The Garden rap and sing their thoughts. What is silly and what is serious occupy the same breath, delivered with equal necessity. Across their whole discography, a handful of EPs, some singles and two full-lengths, 2015’s “Haha,” and 2012’s “The Life and Times of a Paperclip,” The Garden have established their own rules and unifying principle, “vada vada,” which Wyatt Shears explains as “pure creative expression, that disregards all previously made genres and ideals.” And so here is more of that, starting with lead single “All Access” and its accompanying video by Will Sipos and Sean Campos. In it, the viewer attends a show, gets patted down, jumps around with the audience, steals goggles from a backroom card game, goes pee and gets his scooter stolen by the band. All in all, a good time in Orange County.

||| Watch: “All Access”

||| Live: The Garden perform Sunday, Feb. 5, at The Echoplex. Tickets.