Song · Laura Mvula
“Green Garden” by Laura Mvula
From the album Sing to the Moon (2013)
“Green Garden” by Laura Mvula appears on 3 radio countdowns from 2 stations in 2013. It was first released in 2013 on the album Sing to the Moon. Its best result is #19 on the WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2013. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #89 indie & aaa song of 2013.
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Laura Mvula wrote "Green Garden" on her own, and it became the second single from Sing to the Moon, her 2013 debut album, arriving as a UK download that February. The Guardian's John Robinson heard a singer with a voice so big she could afford to hold most of it back, praising the minimal, chiming loops of the production and her understated, Nina Simone-like phrasing before the chorus finally breaks open into gospel. Heat gave it four stars.
The video went up on YouTube in January, shot at Descanso Gardens in La Cañada Flintridge and in the Lincoln Heights neighbourhood of Los Angeles, and she sang it on The Graham Norton Show that February.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 59 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2013 | 90 |
| 2013 | 19 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2013 | 200 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 501 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
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