(Alternative, Indie, Electronic) Lost in the Trees - Past Life - 2014 (Web), AAC (Tracks), 256 kbps

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Lost In the Trees / Past Life
Жанр: Alternative, Indie, Electronic
Страна: USA (Chapel Hill, NC)
Дата релиза: February 18, 2014
Издатель (лейбл): Anti/Epitaph
Аудио кодек: AAC
Тип рипа: tracks
Битрейт аудио: 256 kbps
Продолжительность: 00:37:26
Источник: iTunes
Вшитые тексты: не добавлены
Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: нет

Треклист:
1. Excos (3:25)
2. Past Life (4:08)
3. Lady in White (3:51)
4. Daunting Friend (2:52)
5. Rites (2:57)
6. Wake (3:38)
7. Glass Harp (4:34)
8. Sun (3:54)
9. Night Walking (4:40)
10. Upstairs (3:26)
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Об исполнителе (группе)
http://lostinthetrees.com/
Lost in the Trees is the brainchild of singer/guitarist Ari Picker, a Chapel Hill native who started his career as a member of the B-Sides. Picker's studies at the Berklee College of Music led him to attempt an orchestral effort, and he adopted the moniker Lost in the Trees for the project. After assembling a small group of musicians, he recorded a folk-influenced EP, Time Taunts Me, and released it on Trekky Records in early 2007. Schoolwork prevented him from touring in support of the EP's release, though, and Picker didn't return to the Lost in Trees project until 2008, when he graduated from Berklee and moved back to North Carolina.
Picker began putting together a new lineup for his band, calling upon several members of the Trekky Records crew as well as the University of North Carolina's orchestra program to help him out. Once formed, the group recorded All Alone in an Empty House, a lush sophomore album that featured strings, horns, and full orchestration. The record was released in 2008 and reissued two years later, following the group's signing with Anti- Records. The band's sophomore outing, 2012's evocative A Church That Fits Our Needs, served as a musical tribute to Picker's mother, who took her own life in 2009. The group's third long-player, Past Life, followed in early 2014. ~ William Ruhlmann & Andrew Leahey, Rovi

Об альбоме (сборнике)
On 2012's bold A Church That Fits Our Needs, Lost in the Trees mastermind Ari Picker mourned the suicide of his mother with equal parts grace, empathy, and fury, effectively turning what could have been the biggest downer of the year into a surprisingly stirring and transformative experience that found the sweet spot between meticulous, music school artistry, and baseline, heart on the sleeve humanity. 2014's Past Life finds Picker and the rest of the Chapel Hill orchestral pop outfit dialing back the bombastic melancholia in favor of a more refined, almost monastic approach to songcraft that introduces a few stray rays of sunlight into the room without disrupting the glow of the candelabra. The biggest difference between the two albums, sonically speaking, is the way in which they utilize silence. Where the latter sought fit to fill in most of the gaps, the former treats space like the vacuum it is, sometimes allowing both the ceiling and the floor to drop out, most notably on the slow-burn bookends "Excos" and "Upstairs," both of which are as economical as they are ethereal. Elsewhere, the soulful title track, with its sensual "Sound and Vision" groove, the like-minded "Lady in White," and the majestically somber "Sun" feel less beholden to the Sufjan Stevens model of orchestral folk and more in line with the midnight black sophisti-pop that Destroyer's Dan Bejar was unearthing on 2011's Kaputt. Following up something as powerful and intimate as A Church That Fits Our Needs was never going to be easy, but with Past Life, Lost in the Trees have risen to the occasion and crafted a record that's no less haunted, but decidedly more open to interpretation. © iTunes
Dancing is not an activity one typically associates with the North Carolina orchestral indie-folk band Lost in the Trees, a group that has traditionally been too focused on going for the emotional jugular to worry much about moving listeners' feet. But dancing, in a light spring rain, is exactly what I found myself doing when they rolled out some new songs at famed Carrboro venue Cat's Cradle's block party last May. Their stolid rock drums were newly tinged with a disco tick-tock; an electronic sequencer pulsed out fleet arpeggios beneath the live musicianship. These surprising changes are reflected on fourth LP Past Life, which should still have enough sentimental grist to satisfy old fans while broadening the band's appeal to people who prefer a little more dynamism in their dolor.
Part of the reason for the change is a reduction in personnel from a sextet to a quartet, and the band also worked with an outside producer, Nicolas Vernhes (Deerhunter, Dirty Projectors), for the first time. In becoming leaner and less hermetic, Lost in the Trees seems to have freed itself from its habitual pomp. There are still the ringing guitars of indie rock, the vaporous harmonies of choral music, and the vigorous string and piano arrangements of classical. And as always, bandleader Ari Picker's lofty tenor is a pleasure to hear, especially as it rises over the prickling guitar of album highlight "Daunting Friend". But while it was always a stretch to call a six-piece "orchestral," this chamber-music-sized lineup definitely sheds the excess the term might imply, and while Picker is a canny writer for strings and piano, he seems more focused on giving the songs stiff spines than frilly embroideries. The resulting music is refreshingly streamlined and direct.
The atmospheric "Excos" opens the album on a familiar note, with shimmering, panning cymbals and a slow curl of piano opening out from the slightly distorted choral lines of Emma Nadeau. But the band's new look quickly presents itself on the title track, an anthem taut with lyrical electric guitar work and a juddering electronic undercarriage. The thick, pumping bass of songs such as "Lady in White" and "Wake" introduces a facet that has seldom been heard in Lost in the Trees' chaste music—sex—while standout deep cut "Sun" shows that they can also bring their new energy to the kind of feather-light songs on which they made their name. The lyrics still strike at grand notes: Angels zip around, light comes out of hearts, and birds, somehow, come out of eyes. But death, still lurking after the difficult memorial album A Church That Fits Our Needs, adds a newly earned gravity and wisdom to the proceedings without being the focus.
Picker remains good at creating a sense of towering scale and charged atmosphere, and the heavenly light that suffuses his music takes on a more humble and terrestrial hue, for the better. Picker sounds revivified, as if he's having more fun, and the feeling is mutual. After they've spent so long swirling high up in the rarified air, it's exciting to hear Lost in the Trees planting their music so firmly in the body, their feet on the ground, tapping. © pitchfork

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Ари Пикер
Эмма Нодеау
Дрю Анагност
Дженавьиев Варга
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