Bell Gardens combines the musical visions of Kenneth James Gibson and Brian McBride (one half of Stars Of The Lid) and began releasing music in 2010, beginning with an EP, Hangups Need Company on Failed Better/Burger Records. 
 Their debut album Full Sundown Assembly on Southern/Burger Records appeared in 2012 and their second full length album titled Slow Dawns for Lost Conclusions was released on UK’s Rocket Girl in 2014. Bell Gardens’ origins began arguably as more of an experiment than the duo’s current ‘experimental’ projects – McBride’s drone – and string-laden ambient symphonies, and Gibson’s ventures in dub and minimalist techno – as they sought to manifest their mutual reverence for folk, psychedelia and chamber pop in a traditional band structure without cannibalising any particular past genre. Bell Gardens’ sound is less reliant on effects and studio trickery than the pairs’ independent guises, laying bare as it does vocals and live instruments with emotional sincerity, and presenting songs imbued with an almost pastoral or gospel simplicity and timelessness.On "Slow Dawns For Lost Conclusions" 
 “haunting acid-folk, pastoral chamber psych and pedal-steel sprinkled country-gospel subtly hoisting of the heaviest heart and soothing of the most savage breast.” - Shindig! Magazine “a glorious bit of slowly emerging psych-Americana that makes me feel like dawn is breaking and so is my heart.” - Stereogum