Skin by In Dark Trees
The first album, Skin, is a collection of songs written from January 2007 to September 2008. None of these songs were ever meant to be on an album together originally, and the sound quality of the recordings is not great at times. It was released in 2008. Cover photography by Boots.
In Dark Trees’ first proper release of sorts (criminally available for free download on Last.fm), Skin is a stunning collection of minimal compilations by American ambient artist John Paul McFarland. Compiling nearly two years of handcrafted compositions into a work of astonishing sensitivity and vision, McFarland ably spans the gamut from predictably Eno-entrenched ambience (“Cold Against The Railtracks”), robust, melodic stomp (“Satori”) and ragged, Crazy Horse dirge (“Sunflowers For The Cement”), crafting found sounds, live instruments, and electronic onomatopoeia into things that breathe. But perhaps most impressively, it’s engaging throughout – often completely riveting. Docked the star for its admittedly ragtag assemblage, Skin is nevertheless a timeless rendering of the ambient tongue, a marvelous ballad of isolation and a staggering endeavor at the solace of beauty. Haunting, delicate, lush, incisive – all of these things at once – and with soul to spare, though I can’t seem to get enough.
-Zach Noland (@the Bathysphere)
- Soft Vitamin Part One (Uneven Shore)
- Floating Rivers
- Satori
- This Rocket Falls Down Now
- Soft Vitamin Part Two (Wind In Palm)
- Landing On Stars
- New Limbs On My Dead Horse
- Cold Against The Railtracks, Near Some Mountain
- Goodbye Broken Motor
- The Angle Of Incidence
- Skin
- Sunflowers For The Cement
- Some Summer Night
- Warm Warning
- Requiem For A Ghost
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