Lost In The Trees
When Lost In The Trees set out to record Past Life, their third album for ANTI-, they knew they needed a break with the past. On their first two releases Picker had used an expanded six-member band to render his carefully composed, classical-inflected songs. For the new album, the band is pared to a lean electronic-rock four-piece; the arrangements are modern, spare, minimal, emphasizing groove and rhythm, blending the sonic architecture of 21st century electronic dance music, and the sensual swerve of post-Bowie 80s pop.
The band made their next break with past practice by electing to work with an outside producer for the first time. Nicolas Vernhes, whose credits include breakthrough albums from Deerhunter, Dirty Projectors and Animal Collective, endorsed the band’s new minimal aesthetic, and the question in the studio became, “How much can we strip away?” But fans that came to the band lured by the lush classicism of All Alone In An Empty House and A Church That Fits Our Needs will not be disappointed.
The haunting lyricism of Picker’s voice and melodies has not diminished in the new sparer approach, but instead rises to the fore, bringing out that timeless quality of the melodies that is the common ground of both folk and pop music. This pop quality, buried but always present in previous efforts, shines on Past Life; not pop in any trivial, retro sense, but the yearning lilt of Harry Nilsson or Mark Hollis, that floating melodicism that Relix found so “achingly beautiful.”
Lost in the Trees made a huge impression on the national press with their two previous albums, ending up as Bob Boilen from NPR Music’s favorite new artist of 2010, and the Wall Street Journal’s album of the year in 2012.
On tour this spring including SXSW!
RIYL: Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Bon Iver, Paper Kites, Grizzly Bear, Okkervil River
TRY: #2, 3, 4, 5
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http://www.npr.org/artists/129383450/lost-in-the-trees
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