“Last night I didn’t sleep too well,” says Tyler Linkman on “That Wall”, the opener to his eight-track EP, Garden Flowers. It’s a straightforward but powerful insight which provides the emotional template for his project. “[But]I ain’t stressing if I hit that wall at all,” he concludes. Throughout the EP, Linkman ruminates on the pressures of growing older while still trying to maintain a firm grip on love, success and his mental wellbeing. On “OK”, the Johannesburg-based artist employs a soundscape of warbling synths and old golden-age drumwork, to ask the centuries-old existential conundrum: What are doing here? “How are you doing? This life is so confusing. Why are we here and what are we doing? It’s all too much”. On the Marcus Harvey-assisted “Been A Minute”, he reminisces on an old love interest while “Dreaming”, which features Mars Baby, is a boom-bap inspired number on the limitations of capitalistic excess. The album coup-de-grace comes in the form of “Levitate”, an 808-laden number featuring rapper Priddy Ugly. Here, Linkman puts aside his philosophical musings to position himself as rap royalty. “These rappers capping way too much/Talk my shit and back it up, you know it’s only the cusp.”