On his latest album I Know a Garden, Edwin Raphael weaves a dense and untamed tapestry of dreams and memories. Lush chamber pop unfolds with radiant flow and grace, crafted with the same care and attention that has shaped the world’s most striking recreations of the Garden of Eden. Based in Montreal, the artist had already explored the shores of an island that came to him dream by dream on his early EPs and his 2023 LP Warm Terracotta.

In the surrounding waters of I Know a Garden, Raphael now begins to move inward—toward a verdant place at the island’s center, one that holds both the roots of his life and the budding possibilities that grow from them. It is a kind of “world within the world,” offering fertile ground for an artist attuned to the complexity of the self and the peculiar sweetness of being.