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Source	Rating
Metacritic	77/100
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Source	Rating
AllMusic
Clash	9/10
Drowned in Sound	8/10
Fact
Mixmag
No Ripcord	5/10
Pitchfork Media	8.2/10

Galaxy Garden is a 2012 studio album by Matt Cutler under his alias of Lone. It was Cutler's fifth studio album but his first released by R&S Records in 2012. The album was recorded between October 2010 and November 2011, and was his first album he made where he found himself making music as a profession opposed to as a hobby. The album's sound is a move away from the more house music oriented sounds of his previous albums and towards a sound more influenced by early 1990s rave music. The album was the first of Lone's to feature guest vocalists.

Galaxy Garden was released on 1 May 2012. A single "Crystal Caverns 1991" was released to promote the album. It received favourable reviews on its release with the BBC, Mixmag and Pitchfork referring to the album as Lone's strongest release.

Galaxy Garden was recorded between October 2010 and November 2011 in Manchester. It was his third full-length studio album.Galaxy Garden was first album that was not done as a side-hobby for Cutler, but as a full-time career as a musician which made it difficult for him to get motivated. Cutler stated that he was "making lots of house-y, kind of 4/4 tunes, and I just got really bored of doing that, but at the same time I didn't have a clue what I was going to do next. I was a few months into this weird spell, and I started to worry". Cutler began working on a track that would become "New Colour" and became inspired by it to take the album in that direction. Cutler spent the rest of the year making new songs with "New Colour" being the jumping point.

The album features vocals from Machinedrum and Anneka. This was the first album of Lone's to use original recorded vocals rather than sampled vocal pieces.

Galaxy Gardens follows a style different from his 2011 EP Echolations (2011), which was house oriented. Unlike previous albums which contained musical references to house and hip hop music, Galaxy Gardens was meant to be "reference free" with Cutler stating he was "influenced by nothing".

The album's sound has been compared to rave music, Dummy described the sounds of the album as a "personal interpretation of these familiar [rave] sounds, colours and symbols in a more modern and allusive way."

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