Coming Out Of The Fog

Description

Rather than spending their time searching for fame, Baltimores Arbouretum have instead concentrated on honing their craft. The bands poetic lyrics and slow, heavy build are not stuff of the quick fix. Their music stands in stark contrast to a culture more concerned with video and track placement than criticism and discourse.

Arbouretum have been praised in Mojo 4 star reviews that end with phrases like It just does not get much better, a Guardian piece proclaiming that they are One of the most distinctive voices around and an Uncut 4 star review calling the music Dense, thrilling and literate.

Fifth full length album Coming Out Of The Fog continues Arbouretums journey as their most focused and best-recorded album to date. Dave Heumanns vocals soar atop his guitar solos and Corey Allenders crunchy bass lines. Arbouretum have reigned in some of their maximalist tendencies, with every song coming in under 7 minutes. Heumann, Allender, Brian Carey (drums), and Matthew Pierce (keyboard, synthesizer, percussion) continue to mine the same breadth of styles made familiar on The Gathering and Song Of The Pearl, notably the languid ballads, fuzzed-out burners, and heavier songs that have defined the groups unique doom laden folkrock sound.

Throughout Coming Out Of The Fog, Heumanns vocals take on a meditative quality, melodies unravelling effortlessly over Careys steady grooves. Syncopated rhythms come to the fore on The Promise, building tension, and leading to a climax of synth swells and chromatic guitar lines. Elsewhere, on Oceans Dont Sing, guest musician Dave Hadleys plaintive pedal-steel guitar lays a bed for some of Heumanns most impassioned singing set to tape. Spending time on pre-production allowed for a more detailed approach to recording. Careys drums were tuned specifically for almost
every track on the album, and tape was used to achieve the warmth only found in analogue.

LP version includes fully artworked inner sleeve and free download coupon. First 500 LPs are pressed on white vinyl, remaining copies on black.

Arbouretum have forged a new alloy of psychedelic heavy rock that captures the narrative power and sonic fury of electric Neil Young, the floral qualities of 1960s British psychedelia and the textural use of distortion at the foundation of drone and stoner rock Arbouretum arises out of the psychedelic swamp blazing with an almost shamanic power New York Press

Gorgeous Stereogum

Imagine the mantric ur-song of fellow Baltimorians Lungfish welded to the flannel-shirted muscle of Creedence and Crazy Horse played with the fervour of folk rock Vice