release date: 1998
format: cd (AATTCD03)
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,24]
producer: Justin Jones
label AATT - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 1. "Nailed" - 2. "Blue Runner" - 3. "Rose-Marie's Leaving" - 5. "Where the Souls Meet" - 6. "Get Critical" - 10. "Highway 4287"
8th studio album by And Also the Trees is a self-released and self-produced album, again with guitarist and main composer Justin Jones as producer, which continue a style with surf rock as heard on Angelfish (1996). Justin has created a more up-tempo and uniform sound and style on this compared to the predecessor. Before finishing the recordings for the album, drummer (and founding member) Nick Havas left the band. He was then replaced with new drummer Paul Hill. With the two most recent albums the band has changed its style quite drastically, although, Simon H. Jones' vocal still haunts throughout the tracks making it a distinct album by this band, and the drumming (despite a new drummer) and bass-lines still keep the soul of AATT intact. The keyboards have been reduced and are less dominant, and on an overall level, it really has its moments.
Admittedly, I saw this as a low-point in the band's career but think better of it in retrospect.
