All Alone In An Empty House by Lost In The Trees

All Alone In An Empty House

Lost In The Trees

2008

All Alone In An Empty House is a Folk album by Lost In The Trees, originally released in 2008. On Gatefold: 5 pressings tracked.

Sound DNA

  • Folk
  • Contemporary Indie Folk
  • lush
  • melancholic
  • pastoral

About

Classically trained composer and artist Ari Picker doesn’t think small. After making a string quartet central to a 2007 EP (<i>Time Taunts Me</i>), Picker plowed deeper into the fertile orchestral-pop field for his sophomore release. Working in the familiar palette of indie folk-rock bands like the Decemberists and Neutral Milk Hotel, but taken to a grander scale, <i>All Alone In an Empty House</i> sets a new bar for the “orchestral pop” crowd. The record starts off modestly with the delicate opening minutes of the title track; but soon, Picker’s yearning voice turns to a wail, and his acoustic finger-picking yields to billowing strings and backup vocals rising like rage in the throat: the devastating lyrics are snatches of childhood memories, washed in the hues of parental discontent. It’s unnerving, and utterly lovely. From the brawny guitars and scrappy choral shout-outs on “Fireplace,” to the “Carmina Burana”-flavored drama of “Walk Around the Lake” and the elegant classical grace of “Mvt. 1 Sketch” and “Mvt. 2 Sketch,” it is, quite simply, dazzling.

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Tracklist

  1. 1All Alone in an Empty House5:44
  2. 2Walk Around the Lake2:57
  3. 3Mvt. I Sketch3:12
  4. 4Song for the Painter3:20
  5. 5Fireplace3:32
  6. 6Love on My Side3:25
  7. 7Wooden Walls of This Forest Church1:51
  8. 8A Room Where Your Paintings Hang3:25
  9. 9We Burn the Leaves2:44
  10. 10Mvt. II Sketch5:35
  11. 11For Leah and Chloe2:03

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Performers

5 pressings tracked on Gatefold