Bethany Cosentino’s swift rise to fame as lead singer of L.A. rock duo Best Coast was exciting to witness. Their 2010 debut album Crazy For You spilled with lo-fi, love-dovey rock songs, which became instant classics, but while the band gained notoriety and their music climbed up the charts, Consentino was struggling to cope with success and was losing a battle with her insecurities. Following their most recent album—2015’s California Nights—and Trump’s election victory, Consentino experienced a creative dry spell and a whirlwind of emotional setbacks, so she turned to alcohol to numb the pain.
In 2017, she finally decided to get sober and found herself creatively tuned in again. The result was their fifth album Always Tomorrow, which leans into stomping, hi-fi rock riffs and anthemic choruses. The lyrics were largely informed by her “broken patterns” and journey back to sanity. “Some days I wake up and I feel like I’m on top of the world and I forget about everything that’s ever bummed me out, and other days, it all comes flooding back,” Consentino says. “This album is about leaving the darkness for the light, but still understanding that nothing is ever going to be perfect.”
Best Coast’s first album since 2015’is out in just a few weeks, and today we’re getting the third track off Always Tomorrow, following “For the First Time” and “Everything Has Changed.”
The duo’s album opener is called “Different Light,” a dynamic song in which Bethany Cosentino sings about a compassionate viewpoint and the ability to see things from another’s perspective: “Guess before I thought of only things being in black or white / Who am I to judge if you still see things in a different light?”
Always Tomorrow is out February 21st by Best CoastConcord Records,
Los Angeles ensemble Spanish Love Songs are gearing up to release their third album this Friday in the wake of 2018’s impressive Schmaltz. But before revealing “Brave Faces Everyone”—their first LP through their new label, Pure Noise—the group is sharing one more single called “Beachfront Property,” which angstily addresses many of the same concerns we’re forced to confront on a day-to-day basis: climate change, student loan debt, and a baffling incompetent political system, among others.
“The answers seem so obvious, yet nothing ever really changes,” shares lead vocalist Dylan Slocum, addressing these topics which recur throughout the album. “It’s tiring. This is a song about the apathy and anxiety that I see in myself and my friends, especially concerning the chaos that seems to be coming our way. On any given day our anxiety feels hyperbolic, or is the punchline to a joke, or keeps us up all night, but we don’t really do anything about it because it feels insurmountable and inescapable. It’s not meant to preachy—life is difficult. But we have to try to call ourselves on our shit if we ever hope to change anything.”
The video sees the band performing the tune in front of a bright red Mercedes, a surrogate image on par with the luxury of the song’s titular real estate. As the song reaches its climax the band’s showered in bright flowers, providing a vibrant new color palette to the single-tone set.
Brave Faces Everyone is due out this Friday, February 7th, via Pure Noise Records.
As we continue to mourn the loss of Andy Gill, the celebration of his band’s influence on young groups within and outside of his native UK continues on with every dancy post-punk album that creeps into our most listened to Spotify playlists. Shopping have been in such playlists for five years or so now, and the release date for their fourth album may just be the balm we need for the Gang-of-Four-sized hole in our hearts.
The London-formed trio of guitarist Rachel Aggs (now based in Glasgow), drummer Andrew Milk (yep, also Glasgow), and bassist Billy Easter (a newly christened Angeleno) are the rare kind of supergroup that works; it seems like a shared passion for new wave has inspired a chaotic camaraderie often defined by their penchant for stepping on each other’s toes. At times their staccato instrumentation is met with agreeable vocal harmonies, though it seems more common that the trio find themselves singing over each other.
One such song from “All or Nothing”—out today—is “No Apologies,” which Easter describes as being about “intense indecision and feeling like you’re being pulled in several different directions emotionally.” Summarizing much of the group’s back catalog, she explains: “We all sing at the same time in parts of this song, and for me that also reflects the noise that can fill your head during times of high emotion.”
For more insight on each individual track from all three band members, read on for the descriptive track-by-track below. All or Nothing is out now via FatCat Records
1. “All or Nothing”
Rachel: We wrote this song when we had some days off tour in Seattle, staying with a friend of a friend who happened to have a really nice practice space in his basement. I remember coming up with the main guitar riff, and Andrew instantly came in with this drum part that started on the second beat of it—I find it so satisfying to play, that drum beat, and the way Billy’s bassline drops in with it has such a cool kick to it. We wrote the second part as a totally separate song and then smashed them together. Our songwriting method is pretty chaotic that way.
2. “Initiative”
Rachel: This one came out pretty fully formed. Sometimes that just happens! We played it on tour in Germany and I tried out various weird lyrics on stage, I figured a German-speaking audience wouldn’t judge us too harshly for talking a small amount of nonsense whilst I figured out what I wanted to sing about. When we were mixing in LA with Nick Sylvester, we added the rolling Moog baseline in the chorus, because he was like, “We need to make the chorus really explode,” and we loved it instantly. It,s a frustrated song about responsibility and blame, it’s pretty angry, but it has this groove that propels you forward.
Billy: The bassline for this one also came to me while we were in the Seattle basement. It’s kinda frenetic, I was feeling very excited/anxious and I think it shows in the sound we produced. It was also a few days before we performed to the biggest ever crowd at San Francisco Pride, a very exciting time!
3. “Follow Me”
Rachel: This song began life reacting to the experience of literally being followed around a shop by a security guard, thinking about surveillance and profiling, what do you represent as a person of color or part or a counterculture or wearing a hoodie—what does it take for a person to look suspect or visible and how does it feel to be that person?
Billy: We couldn’t ignore that the words “Follow me” also hold another meaning with regards to social media, personal brands, and cults of personality, though. It’s also about feeling aware that the image you are projecting online is often distorted/amped up/unreal, but (especially as a band or a musician) you are still benefiting from that illusion. There is something sexy about this deceptive power play. The thrill of the chase, knowing that someone is thinking about or watching you. “CCTV is living for me.” We complain constantly about breaches of privacy and surveillance culture, but part of us also loves the attention. I remember writing this being really fun, we were dancing around a lot.
4. “No Apologies”
Andrew: Deciding to make significant changes in your life can be a complicated struggle with yourself, your self-doubt, and saboteur. Nothing is ever truly black and white. This song is about that internal struggle with your own choices. How do you weigh up what you have to gain against what you will inevitably lose? Fragile relationships are strained and broken, risks are calculated and taken, but it’s always a leap into the unknown.
5. “For Your Pleasure”
Rachel: This one’s about the feeling of constantly longing for something that is just out of reach, or that you can’t yet name. “What you see is what you get”—the feeling that doing something reckless or satisfying in the moment will bring you some kind of transcendent joy when really you will probably just end up with a hangover or a lingering sense of regret. Being in a loving relationship but still having nagging thoughts about the thrill of having a crush/dreaming of other realities and choices you could have made. I was really learning on the spot when it came to the synth on this song but I remember we really wanted that propulsive, arpeggiated sound and I was so pleased with myself when I figured out how to do it. Billy and our friend Lessa Millet made an awesome video for this song with loads of fabulous friends at the dance party of our dreams…
Billy: I would love this song to be a queer dance anthem! So Lessa and I went with that theme when making the video for the song. It was really fun!
Andrew: I started a Hi-NRG club night with a friend in Glasgow about a year ago and have been pretty obsessed with arpeggiated synth and octave jumping so was really pleased with the heavily ’80s disco vibe we created with this track. It has a really satisfying outro that reaches a kind of fever pitch.
6. “About You”
Rachel: I really love how this song starts out pretty sparse and odd, but then takes this unexpected melodic turn at the end—it felt pretty different to anything we’ve done in the past, a lot sweeter sounding.
Billy: I feel like this is kinda the sad love song of the album, again maybe about feeling happy but needing more. I really love it, I think it’s the most “beautiful” song we have ever written, and I feel a real surge of emotion when the song builds towards the end.
7. “Lies”
Andrew: This one was about being true to yourself and valuing that in others. About not being able to stand by while a friend or loved one is undervaluing themselves/not being true to themselves and/or putting themselves into situations that you know are toxic/harmful.
8. “Expert Advice”
Andrew: Truth is a difficult concept to hold onto in this day and age—“Can you rely on this narration?” How much of what we hear and read in the media is a story tailored to our own pre-existing biases? In the limited dealings we’ve had with media it’s hard to not subconsciously tailor our own responses to fit our own story as a band—when, in reality, your conception of who you are/what you do and for what reasons can change from moment to moment. We all sing on this one which always feels awesome, that the three of us felt inspired to relate to the track.
Billy: For me this can also apply to personal relationships, when we tailor ourselves or play a role that we think will make other people accept and love us.
9. “Body Clock”
Rachel: This guitar riff is so stupid we still refer to it as “Rock Song,” and we couldnt really take it seirously for a while. When we played it to Davey Warsop, who recorded the album, he liked it so much that he convinced us it could actually be a proper song, but it didn’t get a real name ’til right before we mastered the album.
10. “Trust in Us”
Andrew: I liked how the wording can put you in mind of a hypothetical person in position of power, and also a tongue in cheek way of talking about our band. As in, “We are on album four now and you can trust in us, dear listener.”
Surf-punks The Frights released a new album of uncharacteristically emotive songs. “Everything Seems Like Yesterday” is the group’s second LP for Epitaph, and the first to see them move in the direction of introspective acoustic songwriting, rooted in vocalist Mikey Carnevale’s original intention to share the songs as a solo record. Among the ten new tracks, “Leave Me Alone” stands out as particularly earworm-y pop song, borrowing little more than its angsty subject matter from their SoCal-punk godparents.
Band Members
Marc Finn – Drums
Mikey Carnevale – Guitar
Richard Dotson – Bass
Jordan Clark – Guitar
Our new album ‘Everything Seems Like Yesterday’ is out now digitally on Epitaph Records. CD/Vinyl Out March 13th.
Hop Along’s Frances Quinlan released her debut solo album “Likewise” on January 31st, 2020 via Saddle Creek Records. After four explosive albums in the form of Hop Along, the opening strains of Frances Quinlan’s Likewise play appreciably against expectations. The singer possesses one of the greatest and most unique voices in rock ‘n’ roll today, an instrument of both ragged power and fluttering grace, but here it’s been tamed from the guttural intensity so often heard in classic Hop Along tracks like “Waitress.” Her first solo album is a pristine work of inventive, introspective and sometimes chaotic songwriting, and although I warmed to it quickly when it was released in February, I find myself repeatedly spinning it now at home, especially while I’m working.
Frances Quinlan is one of our finest songwriters, and Likewise, her first solo album after almost a decade in Hop Along, is a showcase for her many talents. Her songs are impressionistic fragments — they feel unmoored in time, like “Went To LA,” or they settle for indeterminate endings, like “Your Reply” and “Rare Thing.” Her arrangements on Likewise are light and weightless, but Quinlan brings a gravity and emotional acuity to everything that she does. It’s an album that ponders big questions but doesn’t get tripped up on the answers; it savours the unknowing.
There isn’t a song that has been more deeply ingrained in my head for the last month than earworm “Your Reply,” to the point that I’m wondering if surgery may be required to dislodge it. Inspired by the notes found within the copy of a dog-eared book, there’s just something mesmerizing about how Quinlan manages to turn real-life horror—“The author I read fell from a window many stories high / stretching out to feed pigeons or a stray cat depending on the website”—into a turn of phrase that would only sound pretty when she’s the one delivering it.
On the lead single off her solo album Likewise, “Rare Thing,”Frances Quinlan recalls a surreal dream where barbs like, “I know there is love that doesn’t have to do with taking something from somebody” sting against a stippled synth. For “Detroit Lake,” she conjures images of a hawk striking prey, blooming algae, and words left unspoken, while the plaintive notes of “A Secret” mirror her lyrics’ portrait of geographical and emotional distance. At times, the syncopation between her vocals and the instrumentation is so effortless that it feels like she’s dynamically bending the instruments to her will.
She previously shared the first single “Rare Thing,” and now she’s recently returned with her second single, “Now That I’m Back.” It features Quinlan’s signature vocals but given a new sonic dimension full of space and electronics that surely separates her solo effort from her work with Hop Along.
Below find a little background on the track straight from Quinlan,
I find it mystifying that my idea of love has aged and changed right alongside me. I’d always thought of love as something one is given, I didn’t think much about my own capacity for love, for generosity. That’s too bad, but now I understand a little better, I hope. At this point I think love is always there, it exists in the margins, one needs only to access it (though this often requires some struggle and at times some pain).
Compromise is often required for the survival of most relationships. I was thinking about my struggles with compromise for the sake of understanding someone outside myself. It’s a long road, I think this song just portrays the start of it. Love is always around, even as great chunks of time drift from us and we inevitably find ourselves altered and wonder how we got to this place. I frighten myself with thoughts of love disappearing from my life, or of my hardening as a person. I’ve had some odd chapters over the last few years. I think this song came out of one of them.
Frances Quinlan – Now That I’m Back from the album “Likewise” out January 31st, 2020
Believe it or not, it’s tough to make it as a musician these days. You can hear this struggle clearly in “Personalia,” the first single from Athens, GA–based songwriter Locate S,1’s forthcoming album of the same name, as she opens the track with the line, “Almost killed myself so I went home / I just cannot take these local shows.” Yet the simmering new wave instrumentation isn’t the only sign of hope on the single, and the album to follow. “Personalia” takes its name from a Mary Ruefle poem, marking a shift in the poet’s creative life from an old woman’s spirit trapped in a young woman’s body to the inverse—that is to say, Locate S,1 represents a hopeful reinvention for Christina Schneider, who’s cycled through a number of musical projects before touring with Frankie Cosmos and signing to Captured Tracks under the new moniker.
Official video for “Personalia”, from Locate S,1’s new album, Personalia.
For the past nine years, Jehnny Beth has been known as the frontwoman of the ferocious post-punk band Savages a live wire with a slick pixie cut and arresting onstage persona. When she made the decision to make a solo album in 2016, she was warned it was “a big mistake.” It proved to be exactly the encouragement she needed.
“When people are telling you that you’re making a mistake, it’s usually because you’re seeing something that they haven’t seen yet,” she said following her workout at a boxing club in West Hollywood.
Minutes earlier, sweat poured from her short, black hair as she cursed a final set of burpees. Although she’s based in her native France, Jehnny Beth discovered boxing in 2018 while working in Los Angeles on what turned into her solo debut, “To Love Is to Live,” due May 8th, and toying with a role in an action movie, which she eventually turned down.
“Boxing is the closest thing I have to the stage,” she explained, as she slid a collection of spiky silver rings back on her fingers. “It’s the closest I am to the physical intensity, the adrenaline, the fear.”
Jehnny Beth (real name: Camille Berthomier), 35, has performed live only twice since July 2017, when Savages concluded a world tour in support of their second album, “Adore Life.” As the band’s lead singer, she was as tender and angry as a bruise, delivering songs with an alluring intensity that earned comparisons to Ian Curtis and P.J. Harvey. She called Savages — which features the guitarist Gemma Thompson, the bassist Ayse Hassan and the drummer Fay Milton — “a gang against the world.”
Romy Madley Croft of the English indie-pop trio the xx, was a close friend, recalled the power of seeing Savages for the first time at Coachella in 2013. “Jehnny transported me,” Madley Croft said in a interview. “I was in the desert in the middle of the afternoon, but I felt like I was in a dark club.”
“I never really wanted to give a statement about Savages and if we’re coming back,” Jehnny Beth said, her accent a mellifluous blend of French and British. “If I feel like I want to do a punk record again, I’ll probably do it with Savages. It’s a great band with a soul, and that’s quite rare.”
Jehnny Beth hadn’t planned to branch out on her own. She was startled into action in January 2016, when she woke up in the middle of the night and learned that David Bowie had died. She stirred her longtime partner and producer, Johnny Hostile, and the pair stayed up until morning listening to Bowie’s final studio album, “Blackstar.”
“‘Blackstar’had a huge influence in terms of reminding me how an album can be a testament, an imprint of your vision of the world, and it will last longer than you will,” she said. It inspired her to work on the solo album “as if I was going to die.”
“To Love Is to Live” is an eerie, almost cinematic experience, partially inspired by Spike Lee’s “25th Hour” and French noir films, and helped along by Johnny Hostile, who projected scenes from movies, including “Dunkirk,” on the walls of the studio as they wrote — a technique he employed while helming both Savages albums.
Jehnny Beth also tapped the producer Flood (U2, New Order) and Nine Inch Nails’ Atticus Ross to give the album an intriguing sonic dissonance. Its first single, “I’m the Man,” opens with a gentle recitation of Jehnny Beth’s poem “A Place Above” by the “Peaky Blinders” star Cillian Murphy (“See the most powerful man raise his hand to tell us a lie/No, no, not another lie”) before exploding into a full-blown electronic assault.
Madley Croft, who helped write two of the album’s songs and served as a sounding board, praised Jehnny Beth’s genre experiments, which include android vocal stylings, melancholic saxophones and a piano ballad. “You get to know her a lot more on this album,” Madley Croft said. “I’m really glad she’s harnessed that energy from Savages, but I could see that there was so much stuff in her mind that she wanted to get out.”
The night after her boxing workout, Jehnny Beth drove us in her rented black Mustang to join her friend and sometimes-collaborator Nick Zinner, of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, at their favorite haunt, Jumbo’s Clown Room, a no-nudity bikini bar in Hollywood where a prestardom Courtney Love used to pole dance. The two musicians frowned at a group of guys flicking balled-up dollar bills at one of the women, and over a glass of seltzer (she no longer drinks alcohol), Jehnny Beth explained that the album’s centerpiece “Flower” was written for one of the bar’s regular performers. The track’s lyrical agony is worthy of Anne Sexton, and the sultry thrum of the chorus — “She loves me and I love her/I’m not sure how to please her” — recalls Portishead’s 1994 masterpiece “Dummy.”
“I really wanted to do a love song for a woman,” said Jehnny Beth, who is bisexual and said she had difficulty expressing her desires when she was younger. “To me, women were in the distance,” she added, “so it’s been liberating to write about them.”
Growing up in Poitiers, a city in western France, Jehnny Beth learned English by singing jazz standards performed by Billie Holiday and Jane Baker. At 10, she introduced more contemporary music into the household, becoming an ardent fan of the band Placebo. Once, at a concert, she threw a treasured copy of “The Picture of Dorian Gray” at its frontman, Brian Molko, accidentally hitting his guitar. He chastised her from the stage, a detail that made it into several newspaper articles, all of which she saved.
Jehnny Beth met Johnny Hostile in her early 20s, through mutual friends. The unorthodox “h” in Jehnny is intended as a mirror reflection of Johnny (real name: Nicolas Congé). She moved to London with him, despite her parents’ warning that she was making a mistake, and the pair have been writing music together ever since, beginning in 2006 with their lo-fi indie collaboration John & Jehn.
Jehnny Beth even came to Savages via Johnny Hostile, who had been invited to start a band by GemmaThompson. With the group on an unspecified hiatus, she has continued to evolve into a multi-hyphenate talent. “I was Jehnny Beth before Savages,” she added. “I always knew I was going to do other things.”
In February, she will host a TV talk show called “Echoes With Jehnny Beth” for a European channel that will expand the idea of her Beats 1 radio program, “Start Making Sense,” by prompting conversations between musical guests. In June, she will release a book of erotic short stories that began as a poetry collection before she made the rare decision to heed a critic. “Polly Jean Harvey told me my poetry was awful,” she said and laughed.
“I like doing things that are scary,” she added, and credited boxing for helping her make brave career choices. “Once you take a step, in spite of your fear, you realize: This is not how I imagined it would be, but it’s exactly how I want it to be.”
The phrases “avant-garde improvisational noise rock” and “hot new buzz band” don’t often show up next to each other in the same sentence. But they’re difficult to avoid when discussing London’s Black Midi, an adventurous group that’s somehow broken through over the last couple years to become one of the most hyped acts in the U.K. despite (or perhaps because of) a sound tailor-made to challenge and bewilder listeners in its prog-punk weirdness.
The indescribable Londoners just hasn’t been the same. Seems like Black Midi dropped a single utterly unlike anything found on their baffling debut from earlier this year, blending banjo and post-rock crescendos with totally spoken word on a song with the more Carrey-wary title “7-eleven.” Following “Talking Heads” as a very reasonable alt take from the album Schlagenheim, “7” is a bizarre interpretation of Americana.
Black Midi’s excellent debut, Schlagenheim — released last year on Rough Trade Records, the iconic label that signed the Smiths and the Strokes — was nominated for the Mercury Prize, and they followed it with a mostly sold out 21-date American tour. “We intended our first show to be our last, so the whole band has been a surprise,” says Black Midi singer-guitarist Geordie Greep. “You’ve got to keep it relative.
Greep and drummer Morgan Simpson bonded over their shared love of jazz fusion, especially John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra; bassist-keyboard player Cameron Picton is a fan of West African highlife and Congolese soukous; guitarist Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin was partial to classic rock and Japanese noise bands like the Boredoms. Nearly all those elements would soon show up in the band’s sound.
UK math rock breakouts Black Midi have shared a bonus track from this year’s Schlagenheim, which the band has performed live in the past under the name “Cameron’s Song.” It’s a bit more spacious than the other songs on the record, almost leaning in post-rock territory.
As for where the band’s music is heading, Greep says whatever they put out next will be “unrecognizable” from what they’ve done so far, somewhat elusively promising something “more complicated but more simple, more clever, more subtle.”
“As individuals we challenge ourselves to try new things,” adds Simpson. “We’re always trying to find new ways to feel uncomfortable.”
It’s been awhile, huh? After the Australian psych band led by Kevin Parker dominated the first half of the decade, particularly with its back-to-back classics Lonerism and its poppier sibling Currents, we haven’t heard much from Tame Impala since 2015. Sure, they’ve headlined virtually every major music festival and the biggest stages across the world over the past five years, new music has been few and far in between. This is the band that headlined Coachella and played SNL on the heels of releasing two singles and nothing else, after all. Now almost a year since the poppy groove of “Borderline” was dropped, we’re finally getting to hear The Slow Rush, a record that sounds like the logical progression from Currents’ embrace of psychedelic modern R&B and Parker’s work with Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson and Travis Scott. But don’t worry, you Innerspeaker and Lonerism purists: There’s lots of psych rock jams to love here underneath the shimmering synth, too.
Arbouretum’s mystic folk-rock collapses a continuum of 20th century music into decidedly classic song structures. English folk, country blues, Americana and 70s psychedelia all serve as touchpoints in their singular and distinctive sound. The Baltimore-based band have perfected the craft of storytelling using the delicate interplay of melodies and prosaic lyrics to tell vivid stories that engage the listener and transport them the way an immersive novel would. Let It All In stands as their most accomplished and evocative album to date. Guitarist and vocalist Dave Heumann’s melodies and solos still remain a central focus bolstered by the hypnotic rhythms of bassist Corey Allender and drummer Brian Carey and enhanced by Matthew Pierce’s substantial yet understated keyboard figures. Each song is a vivid scene or tale; meticulously detailed and crafted, transporting the listener to another world and time.
Recorded at Wrightway Studios with Steve Wright, the record’s elaborate, delicate and interlocking melodies expand with improvisation as in the relentless forward-motion of title track “Let In All In”, or the slow cosmic churn of “No Sanctuary Blues”. Let It All In features two drummers on nearly every track. David Bergander worked with long-time core member Carey to develop complementary parts, blended together as if they were a single player rather than two separate instrumentalists. New sounds are nowhere more evident than on “High Water Song”. With its raucous honky-tonk piano laid down by Hans Chew and walls of layered saxophone, trumpet and flugelhorn played by Dave Ballou and Matthew Pierce, it is a striking new addition to their catalog of songs.
Heumann’s deep sense of spirituality and command of storytelling through myth and metaphor resonates through Arbouretum’s music. Let It All In invokes nature as a backdrop for exploring humanity’s relationship to time, history, and the present socio-political climate, often highlighting water as a ubiquitous if often unconscious presence in our lives. It acts as a subtle connecting thread through each piece’s imagined landscapes, as well as taking on a symbol for change and spirit. The “black and deepest crimson” of sunrise over the Atlantic ocean on “How Deep It Goes” reflects on current political turmoil and the obfuscation of truth. “High Water Song” follows a narrator whose home is washed away by the effects of climate change and struggles to integrate into a new homeland. Title track “Let It All In” acts as a thematic thesis to the album, musing on both the pitfalls and benefits of letting the outside world into one’s inner life.
Let It All In is as instantly arresting as it is deeply reflective, with layers of sound and metaphor for the listener to unravel and interpret in their own way. It is a beautiful album that lives in and reflects the present moment while sounding as if it were forged in another era. The group has always centered around Heumann’s remarkable voice and songwriting. His skill as a vocalist and guitar player have led to playing with artists such as Cass McCombs, WillOldham, and many others. Heumann’s songs are transportive and decidedly album-oriented, and Let It All In is an invitation to jump into an album rich with timeless elegance. The rarity of their live shows and the other worldliness of their music have made Arbouretum a cultish band, a treasure for those that discover their albums. Their profound music endures and rewards fans both old and new. Arbouretum has added to their catalog another exceptional work that will weather changing fashions and reward those who explore their entirely unique world.
