Troubled Gardens has been played on NTS in shows including NTS Guide to…, featured first on 4 March 2024. Songs played include Silent City.

Troubled Gardens was a post-punk trio active in Washington, DC from 1984 to 1985. The original lineup included Dan Joseph (guitar, synthesizer and drum machine programming), Eric Anderson (bass) and Colin Sears (vocals and synthesizer). Sears would leave the band before their first public performance and appears as vocalist on the band's entry on The Halloween Cassette compilation released by WGNS Recordings (1984). Joseph and Anderson continued to develop instrumental material for some months before being joined by drummer Don…