Lime Garden capture a chaotic night on 'Maybe Not Tonight'

Lime Garden - 2025 - Maybe Not Tonight

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Thu 13 November 2025 9:30, UK

Lime Garden – ‘Maybe Not Tonight’

For years now, Lime Garden have demanded attention.

The four Brighton-based friends started as teenagers making tunes and have grown into one of the most powerful and hooking acts on the indie landscape. Now, they’re back to dominate some more.

It was a long journey to their 2024 debut, One More Thing. They’d been releasing tracks from as early as 2020 and playing together long before that, so clearly, they were dedicated to taking their time.

Over those years, their sound was honed and polished into their own brand of what they initially called ‘wonk pop’, but what that really meant was that the band seemed to follow their intuition and do what they wanted.

Across that debut, they did a lot. ‘I Want To Be You’ is the epitome of an indie earworm, while ‘Fear’ and ‘Floor’ are crunchy and weird, ‘Pine’ and ‘Looking’ are downtrodden and emotive. Indie, rock, electro-elements, shoegaze, pop, folk. There was a bit of everything, and all of it was unmistakably Lime Garden.

After that, and after a busy summer that included playing Glastonbury’s big Park stage, the band took a breather and have now reemerged more varied than ever as their discography gains a club tune.

“It’s the soundtrack to a woman on the edge of making all the wrong choices, it feels like getting punched in the face with the morning after a night out,” the band say of their new offering, ‘Maybe Not Tonight’. Opening with a thumping beat, the track takes you from the dancefloor, out into the city streets as if the band are unleashing you onto a chaotic, drunk walk home, outracing the bad decisions.

It’s rough and rowdy, begging to be played loud or begging to make venue walls rattle. But it also captures the band’s ability to merge introspection into these tunes as the lyrics feel like an inner monologue, the kind of conversations girls are constantly having with themselves, even when they’re trying to just have a dance.

As far as comebacks go, this is a great one – but we never expected anything less.