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- Summary: This is the 35th solo release for the Van Der Graph Generator co-founder.
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- Record Label: Fie!
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Dec 1, 2017From The Trees is simple and unadorned, with generous ladling of his legendarily wayward backing vocals. Skeletal, appealing melodies support tales of inertia (“Torpor rolls upon me in a fog, settles like a sweat upon the skin”), lost love (Girl To The North Country’s “just like that, she’s gone”) and the wane into old age (“only yesterday you were pegging out your tent”).
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Dec 1, 2017Occasional bursts of fierce, psychotic guitar evoke the spirit of punk-rock alter ego, Rikki Nadir. Otherwise it’s voice and piano and very little else. The intimacy is at times so intense it’s almost frightening. It is, to borrow the title of a VdGG song, ’eavy mate. There are some clever subplots too, Hammill being at the very top of his lyrical game.
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UncutDec 1, 2017Its 10 tracks show that age still hasn't tamed Hammill's mighty, stentorian voice or the existential rage still burning at the centre of his songs. [Dec 2017, p.27]
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MojoDec 1, 2017Hammill's best solo album in a long time. [Dec 2017, p.91]