The album was fully produced, arranged, composed and performed by the multi-instrumentalist and vocalist.

[1] Q noted that "what really elevates the songs though, is the underlying weave of Latin-influenced percussion and subtle string arrangements which draw deftly on Garzon-Montano's French-Colombian roots".

[5] Elias Leight of Pitchfork said that "Montano settles on an unusual and fertile combination of sounds, knitting together the burnished, languorous acts of the late '60s and early '70s—the Association, Todd Rundgren—with lean, hair-trigger grooves.

Similarly heaped vocal passages, teeming with good ideas, are everywhere on the second half of Jardín.

Montano especially enjoys contrasting blocky, beeline melodies from A to B with more scenic paths, as if to gently chide ruthless, shortest-route-best-route songwriters.