release date: 2003
format: cd (AATTCD04)
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,48]
producer: AATT and Matthew Devenish
label: AATT - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 1. "21 York Street" - 2. "He Walked Through the Dew" - 3. "The Man Who Ran Away" - 4. "In My House" - 6. "Pale Sun" - 7. "The Reply" - 11. "The Untangled Man"
9th studio album by And Also the Trees is like the predecessor a self-issued and self-made album, and it has been five years in the making. It takes on an interesting change of style compared to the surf rock-styled Silver Soul (1998) and the previous albums, which have seen the band on what seems a constant search of a style, although, they firmly manage to stick to themselves altogether, and regardless new musical influences. The album marks a turn, like many of their recent albums, only this time to a more poetic experimental chamber pop, which doesn't feel far from the style of Tindersticks. What I really like here is the absence of strong keyboards and synthesizers trying to lift the band's sound to a potent force, which in the past could tend to be on an excessive side. Here, it's all about compositions - a dwelling at the song itself. It may not be at the same level as their best albums of the 80s but I like it - it's gooood, proving there's much more life to this band than some would have it.
