Kiss My Super Bowl Ring

The album was announced on January 16, 2020 along with the release of the lead-off single, "Clench to Stay Awake".[5]

As with the band's previous releases, the album is self produced; however, the tracks "Hit Eject" and "Lurkin'" were produced by 100 Gecs member Dylan Brady,[1] and the track "Sneaky Devil" was produced by Kero Kero Bonito member Jamie Bulled under his solo project WHARFWHIT.

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Album of the Year	72/100[6]
Metacritic	71/100[7]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Exclaim!	8/10[8]
NME	[2]
Pitchfork	6.4/10[3]

Kiss My Super Bowl Ring received generally favorable reviews from contemporary music critics. On review aggregator website, Metacritic, the album has an average rating of 71 out of 100 indicating "generally favorable reviews based on 5 critics".[7] On Album of the Year, the album has an average rating of 65 out of 100 based on eight critic reviews.

Writing for, Exclaim!, Spencer Nafekh-Blanchette, gave Kiss My Super Bowl Ring a positive review, praising the seamless fusions of genre-crossing and the chemistry between Wyatt and Fletcher Shears.[8] Nafekh-Blanchette said the album is "their most viscerally intense release thus far".[8] Further, Nafekh-Blanchette said that the album "has the Garden screaming as much as they are singing, and transitioning between the two within a matter of seconds. Somehow, the Shears brothers are able to make it work". Nafekh-Blanchette gave the album an 8 out of 10.[8]

In a mixed review, Abby Jones, writing for Pitchfork said that Kiss My Super Bowl Ring is "proudly defiant; the title, Wyatt has clarified, essentially means “kiss my ass.” But where deviation from the norm has spawned countless artistic geniuses, Super Bowl Ring too often comes off as just a hodgepodge of ideas. “Vada vada,” it seems, has hurt the Garden as much as it's helped them."[3] Jones ultimately gave the album a 6.4 out of 10.[3]

Maria Lewczyk, writing for NME, gave the album four stars out of five.[2] Lewczyk praised the music's unique sound compared to many of their rock music contemporaries. Of the sound, Lewczyk said, "you get the overarching sense that they are more than a little bored with the current musical landscape and want to inject it with their own restless brand of creativity. If this is art rock, then the Shears brothers have crafted a pretty damn impressive collage."[2]

All lyrics are written by Wyatt and Fletcher Shears.

The following individuals were credited with the production of the album:[1]

The Garden

• Fletcher Shears – drums, electronics, vocals
• Wyatt Shears – bass, electronics, guitars, vocals

Additional personnel

• Khalif Jones – additional vocals on “Lurkin’”
• Ariel Pink – additional vocals on “Lowrider Slug”
• Dylan Brady – producer on “Hit Eject” and “Lurkin’”
• Jamie Bulled - producer on “Sneaky Devil”
• Carrot Top – vocal samples
• Samur Khouja – engineer, mixing
• Jim Kissling – mastering
• Wharfwhit – producer, vocal samples
• Alex Petty – artwork
• Ashley Clue – assistant art director, photography

• Kiss My Super Bowl Ring at Bandcamp