{"id":1601,"date":"2011-03-04T16:48:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T23:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2011-03-04T16:48:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T23:48:08","slug":"lost-in-the-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/lost-in-the-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"LOST IN THE TREES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/LOST-IN-THE-TREES-M-Review-SeptOct2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1602\" title=\"LOST-IN-THE-TREES-M-Review-SeptOct2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/LOST-IN-THE-TREES-M-Review-SeptOct2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/LOST-IN-THE-TREES-M-Review-SeptOct2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/LOST-IN-THE-TREES-M-Review-SeptOct2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>L<\/strong><strong>OST IN THE TREES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>All Alone in an Empty House<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Anti-\/Epitaph]<\/p>\n<p>Highbrow and lowbrow find a happy medium on Lost in the Trees\u2019 third album. Intricate classical arrangements effortlessly weave around accordion and guitar, creating an amalgam that band founder Ari Picker calls \u201corchestral folk.\u201d Picker\u2019s rich, evocative sounds lend further gravity to intensely personal lyrics about sexual abuse, dying infants and depression, sung in a boyish tenor reminiscent of Sufjan Stevens. Although there are full-fledged classical pieces and purely folk ballads here, the best moments on <em>All Alone<\/em> come when Picker transcends genre. On \u201cWalk Around the Lake,\u201d the combination of dramatic strings and musical saw is both eerie and captivating. \u201cFireplace\u201d finds Picker\u2019s vulnerable vocals transforming into a raw howl backed by fuzzy indie-rock guitars and crisp violins. Ambitious and thought-provoking, <em>All Alone<\/em> marks Ari Picker as one of music\u2019s most creative young talents. \u2013Juli Thanki<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOST IN THE TREES All Alone in an Empty House [Anti-\/Epitaph] Highbrow and lowbrow find a happy medium on Lost in the Trees\u2019 third album. Intricate classical arrangements effortlessly weave around accordion and guitar, creating an amalgam that band founder Ari Picker calls \u201corchestral folk.\u201d Picker\u2019s rich, evocative sounds lend further gravity to intensely personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,1101,1102,1100,1062],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}