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And Also the Trees

语种

英语

厂牌

Normal

发行时间

1988年02月01日

专辑类别

录音室专辑

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专辑介绍

by Ned Raggett

Having established what would be the basic Trees sound two years previously, the next few albums would see the band taking a path similar to that of the Cocteau Twins, spending time refining and playing around with a set model, but rarely stepping beyond said model. A band rehashing itself or merely playing to its strengths? On the basis of Millpond, clearly much more the latter than the former. Helped in part by the additional keyboards by Mark Tibenham, providing some delicate shades and fills on such tracks as "Simple Tom and the Ghost of Jenny Bailey," the Trees continue to produce impassioned, dramatic songs with lyrical inspiration in emotional extremes, rural settings, supernatural events and mystic imagery, as song titles like "The Sandstone Man" and "Count Jefferey" (a frightening, disturbing number, with a freakish bass intrusion from Burrows) demonstrate. "The House of the Heart" is the standout track this time around, with strings and trumpet flourishes adding to a song notably lighter in musical tone for the Trees, while not lacking the classic Trees' elements of reverbed guitar and Simon Jones' brooding vocals. "From the Silver Frost" also hits high, with a gentle, string-touched start building into a lovely instrumental track. As before, Justin Jones demonstrates how his use of reverbed guitar strumming can create breathtaking atmospherics, as on the opening "The Suffering of the Stream" and "The Ship in Trouble," a flat-out amazing number in which his guitar shadings provide the only music to his brother's evocative lyric. Havas and Burrows provide solid rhythm work throughout; the net result - another great Trees album.