From March:
A comforting record in this most discomforting of times. Let It In, the new album from Baltimore's Arboretum, flows like a mighty river, with assured and convicted momentum through each of its eight tracks like a voice from the past, showing the way towards a future we're not sure whether we can believe in given our fractured and deeply conflicted present. Forgive the purple prose but days like these surely permit them.
Guitar fuelled, and reminiscent by stages of Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Allman Brothers, Crazy Horse, Fables and Pageant R.E.M. and Television in its rockier moments, it's a companion piece to the similarly named Arbor Labor Union's masterful, recent New Petal Instants. Let It In has wisdom and full fluency of form.
There's a definite spirituality and mythic pull to each and every one of these songs. It fully recognises and evokes the great nature we find ourselves momentarily exiled from. Foregrounded recently as Album of the Month by Uncut Magazine, which has a gift for recognising these marginal but important records, it's a gift which keeps giving. I'd suggest you give it a listen.
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