How Does Your Garden Grow?

Infobox Album | Name = How Does Your Garden Grow?
Type = Album
Artist = Better Than Ezra


Released = August 25, 1998
Recorded = January 19 - March 30, 1998
Genre = Alternative
Length = 58:25
Label = Elektra
Producer = Malcolm Burn
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:f9x1z8oa1yv3 link]
Last album = "Friction, Baby"
(1996)
This album = "How Does Your Garden Grow?"
(1998)
Next album = "artifakt"
(2000)

"How Does Your Garden Grow?" is Better Than Ezra's third album and their second with drummer Travis Aaron McNabb. It was released on August 25,1998 by Elektra Records.

The style and content of the album overall is oriented with the night, with the album cover carrying the footnote "A Series of Nocturnes". Though critically-acclaimed, the album was a relative failure commercially, only peaking at #128 on the Billboard charts. The first single, "One More Murder" scraped the bottom end of the Billboard Modern Rock charts, while the second single, "At the Stars," performed better, becoming a Modern Rock and Adult Top 40 hit (and has been covered by Howie Day). A third single, "Like it Like That," failed to chart.

Following the release of "How Does your Garden Grow", Elektra dropped the band.

Track listing

# "Je ne m'en souviens pas" – 4:43
# "One More Murder" – 4:39
# "At the Stars" – 3:43
# "Like It Like That" – 2:44
# "Allison Foley" – 3:45
# "Under You" – 4:56
# "Live Again" – 4:24
# "Happy Day MãMã" – 3:22
# "Pull" – 2:58
# "Particle" – 6:04
# "Beautiful Mistake" – 4:35
# "Everything in 2's" – 3:47
# "New Kind of Low a.) Low b.) Coma" – 5:17
# "Waxing or Waning?" – 3:21

Personnel

* Kevin Griffin - Guitar, Vocals, Rhodes, Piano, Chamberlin, VCS3
* Tom Drummond - Bass, Pedals, Metasynth, VCS3
* Travis Aaron McNabb - Drums, Percussion, Beat Box, VCS3, Optigon

Additional Personnel

* Anthony Dagradi - Flute
* Mark Mullins - Trombone
* Brian Graber - Trumpet
* James Arthur Payne - Guitar, Vocals
* Karl Berger - Vibraphone