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- Summary: The first release in five years for the band led by Sean O’Hagan is a concept album based on a stage production about the changes that happened in Peckham, a district in south-east London.
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- Record Label: Drag City
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Jan 19, 2016This is a quietly ambitious and exciting installment in the history of a band who may be happy (or possibly even destined) to remain under the radar but deserve something far, far greater.
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UncutJan 19, 2016A lovely understated album. [Feb 2016, p.75]
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Jan 19, 2016Wryly observant character studies are linked by wistfully understated instrumental interludes, with harpsichord, vibes, nylon-strung guitar and single-finger organ tumbling contentedly against each other like smalls in a twin-tub.
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Jan 22, 2016Absent any actors to push the narrative along, Here Come the Rattling Trees can drift by during its more passive instrumental passages, but never less than pleasantly so.
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Jan 20, 2016Revealing Rattling Trees as a soundtrack from the jump puts the Llamas at an advantage and a disadvantage. It helps to explain the structure of the album, which kicks off with an overture that touches on all the melodic themes to be heard later, followed by quick instrumental bits that precede actual songs. But without the full text of the play or a chance to see it before hearing the music, these pleasant-but-slight songs become more negligible.
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Jan 19, 2016Life in the town portrayed in Rattling Trees continues as it has, with little change, much like the High Llamas’ music. This can be comforting, but also a little dull.
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Jan 20, 2016Though unlikely to win legions of new fans, this is another impeccably crafted psychedelic rock record sure to please fans of the genre.
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