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Review: 'Held by Trees'
'In the Trees'   


-  Genre: 'Post-Rock' -  Release Date: '22nd April 2021'

Our Rating:
It may have landed with rather minimal fanfare, and that’s perhaps appropriate for the low-key stylings of both Held by Trees linear precursors and their debut single itself, but make no mistake, this is a significant release, and one that warrants some attention.

Talk Talk’s ‘Spirit of Eden’ is an album that occupies a particular and unique place in the canon, and is one that commands deep reverence among many, and while it may not have achieved the commercial success of its predecessor, ‘The Colour of Spring’ and 1991 follow-up, ‘’Laughing Stock’ are now widely acknowledged as a progenitors of post-rock, and history has certainly come to view these albums, recorded with a vast array of musical contributors favourably.

Held by Trees sees seven of the musicals and engineers who appeared on these, and Mark Hollis’ later solo album reunited, and picking up where they left, off, ‘approaching the recording in a similar way, emphasising spontaneous improvisation and keeping the best moments for the mix… Held By Trees attempts to both pay tribute to Hollis who died in 2019, and create something fresh in his legacy’.

And so it is that Held By Trees pursue an instrumental, ambient, post-rock direction, creating a sound that’s layered, and rich in harmony. While maintaining a certain laid-back, casual, and in some ways up-front and almost ‘live’ sound, there’s clearly a lot of consideration gone into its construction and production, and the drum sound is so real, so ‘in the room’, it brings an immediate warmth that the effortless, intuitive musicianship only enhances.

‘In the Trees’ is a magnificent, mellow, meandering composition, vaguely jazzy but not jazzy, kinda background but also entirely absorbing, with a lot going on, but not too much at once. Truly special.
  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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