When Painted Flowers first arrived on the scene in 2020, soaked in sepia and filtered in analogue, they felt strangely out of place. The Johannesburg alternative group emerged with a sound so intoxicatingly haunted by the ghosts of ’60s and ’70s rock and roll, like a blossom that hadn’t bloomed in years. At a time when much of South African alternative music was looking forward (or, in the midst of lockdown, inward), Painted Flowers were busy ex…
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