Enjoy
Gritty bass-driven grooves and deadpan vocals that capture the restless energy of California skate culture. Lo-fi art punk with a hip-hop heart.
Gritty bass-driven grooves and deadpan vocals that capture the restless energy of California skate culture. Lo-fi art punk with a hip-hop heart.
Enjoy is the primary solo outlet for Wyatt Shears, one half of the influential Orange County duo The Garden. Since its inception in 2011, Enjoy has served as a laboratory for the 'Vada Vada' philosophy, a self-defined genre and lifestyle centered on total creative autonomy.
The project is characterized by its DIY 'bedroom' aesthetic, utilizing distorted bass guitar as a melodic lead instrument, vintage drum machines, and a collage-like approach to songwriting. While early releases like 'Fun New World' leaned into a more primitive lo-fi punk sound, later albums such as 'Genetic Tree' and 'Exploited' have incorporated elements of jungle, breakcore, and sophisticated synth-pop. Shears' influence is deeply felt in the 'SoCal' underground scene, bridging the gap between traditional punk rock and the internet-age genre-fluidity of the 2010s and 2020s. Critical consensus views Enjoy as a vital component of the modern art-punk landscape, praised for its refusal to adhere to industry standards and its consistent, idiosyncratic evolution.
Shares playful, restless, confident (moods); post-punk, indie pop (subgenres)
Shares post-punk, lo-fi hip-hop (subgenres); lo_fi, drum_machine, bedroom_production (production style)
Shares bedroom_production, lo_fi, drum_machine (production style); deadpan, baritone, processed (vocal style)
Shares bedroom_production, lo_fi, minimalist (production style); playful, wistful, restless (moods)
Shares bedroom_production, drum_machine, lo_fi (production style); bass, drum machine, keys/synth (instrumentation)
Shares indie pop, lo-fi hip-hop (subgenres); bedroom_production, lo_fi, minimalist (production style)
Shares lo_fi, minimalist, bedroom_production (production style); basement_show, urban_night, solitude (atmosphere)
Shares post-punk, lo-fi hip-hop, indie pop (subgenres); lo_fi, bedroom_production, minimalist (production style)
Shares bass, drum machine, keys/synth (instrumentation); lo_fi, minimalist, bedroom_production (production style)
Shares post-punk, indie pop (subgenres); basement_show, urban_night, solitude (atmosphere)
Shares art punk, bass, deadpan, post-punk (signature)
Shares distorted drum machine loops, bedroom_production, deadpan, lo-fi hip-hop (detail)
Cassette uses generative AI to enrich its catalog. How we use AI →
