Lime Garden have shared an exhilarating cover of the classic New Order track ‘Age Of Consent’, which they recorded at Abbey Road.
The Brighton four-piece put their spin on the iconic 1983 song during a recent visit to the historic London studio, where they also reworked a handful of songs from their upcoming ‘Maybe Not Tonight’.
Their choice to take on the track – released as the opening track of New Order’s second studio album ‘Power, Corruption & Lies’ –comes after they first performed a stirring cover of it during a headline show at YES in Manchester earlier this month. For their version, Lime Garden stripped back the driving energy of the original ‘80s classic, and elegantly reshaped it so it aligned with the nuanced, off-kilter feeling of their signature sound.
“Recording at Abbey Road was definitely a bucket list moment, the stuff we joked about since starting the band,” frontwoman Chloe Howard shared. “We chose to cover ‘Age of Consent’ as New Order were a major influence on the feel of our new album. We love how they meld guitars and synths to create an ‘alternative dance music’ sound.”
The new album from Lime Garden follows on from their critically acclaimed 2024 debut ‘One More Thing’, which captured the raw live energy they broke out during sets at festivals including Glastonbury and Green Man.
Already, the new album has been previewed by the title track, ‘23’, and ‘All Bad Parts’, as well as latest single ‘Downtown Lover’. The record is set to be their most intoxicating and luminous material to date, and will chart the highs and lows of youth, taking on the structure of “a night out, from start to finish”.
Alongside the new music, Lime Garden have also shared a new list of 2026 UK tour dates. The shows kick off in Bristol on October 2, and continue throughout the month with further stops in Oxford, Cambridge, Leeds, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Manchester and more. Visit here for tickets.
Lime Garden aren’t the only ones to share their praise for New Order, and in particular, Gillian Gilbert. Back in 2020, Welsh electronic musician Kelly Lee Owens called for more recognition for the artist – hailing her as a role model and “synth queen”, particularly for her work on ‘Power, Corruption & Lies’.
That record is widely considered to have helped define the sound of the ‘80s, and marked the shift from a post-punk sound into their unique style of synth-pop. At the time of its release, the record reached Number Four on the UK albums charts, and NME later listed it as Number 216 on the 2013 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Speaking to us in 2020 about how that album, and Gilbert in particular, served as a massive source of inspiration, Kelly Lee Owens said: “Having Gillian as the synth queen was fucking amazing, speaking as a woman in music. You can’t be what you can’t see, so to have a woman be a part of something like this and own her part was really inspiring.”