Virus Mania

À en croire les informations, le monde est sans cesse accablé par de nouvelles maladies virales terribles. Le coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, dernière variante en date de l’horreur, a fait la une des journaux. La population est également épouvantée par des reportages sur la rougeole, la grippe porcine, le SRAS, l’ESB, le sida ou encore la polio.

2020 was a terrible year for gardening. It was terrible for peppers, it was terrible for tomatoes, it was terrible for the condition of the soul. But Chad VanGaalen somehow raised a garden all the same: carrots and sprouts and broccoli and a revivifying new album, all of them grown at home. He likes to eat directly off the plant, he says—"I get down on my knees and graze. It's nice to feel the vegetables in your face"—and the 13 songs on World's Most Stressed Out Gardener were harvested with just such a spirit: in their raw state, young and vegetal, at the very moment, they were made.