Lost In The Trees "Time Taunts Me" (Trekky)
By Peter A. Holden
Friday. Mar 09, 1:08 AM
An indie pop orchestral soundtrack.

The more strings the better, I say. When an album invites you in with strings and dancey electronic beats, it’s a good sign that you’ll get more than just a five-piece indie record. Lost In The Trees is a blend of acoustic guitars, pianos, a full orchestra, electronic beats, organs, banjos, and a few other instruments culled together to make an album of short stories. Time Taunts Me is a soundtrack to a movie not yet filmed. Ari Picker is the solo artist of this folk-ish vessel. He’s managed, however, in the process of crafting his albums over the past seven years to corral a full arrangement of musicians behind him to bring depth and broadness of sound. It’s a cinematic musical endeavor, similar in scope to a movie score rather than an album in the traditional sense. It’s epic and colorful and vibrant and yields more than a handful of beautiful images painted into the soundscape. Each track defies pop song structure, but manages to convey excellent songwriting craft nonetheless. The album is a bit on the short side, containing only seven songs all around the five-minute mark. Picker’s music has contiguity in its sound and through its style of composition. What the album lacks through its brevity, it more than makes up for in its uniqueness and its gorgeous textures. Picker’s voice and guitar work conjures up Poor Rich Ones while his songwriting lends itself more to that of Badly Drawn Boy. All in all, this is a great beginning for an artist, and I’d like to hear a good deal more from Lost In The Trees with future albums. Although it’s hard to glean much more than a beginning from his work here, Time Taunts Me definitely shows potential for great things to come.
www.lostinthetrees.com
www.trekkyrecords.com

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Peter A. Holden

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