The 1986 Listening Post - And Also the Trees - Virus Meadow

And Also the Trees - Virus Meadow

#259/1384

June 1986

And Also the Trees

Virus Meadow

Genre: Post Rock

4.25 out of 5

Highlights:

Slow Pulsed Boy

Headless Clay Woman

I don’t think we talk enough about how dark a time it was in the 80s. We think of the 10s as dark, Like DC Universe dark but the music that was splintering off from the Bauhaus/David J movement was fucking dark. Or it really wanted to be. That’s this record. It really wants to be dark. It comes off mostly as pretentious but the attempt is worth it. Much better than their previous one. Much. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xejJDnaMRYU

The 1984 Listening Post - And Also the Trees - And Also the Trees

And Also the Trees - And Also the Trees

#41

February

And Also the Trees

And Also the Trees

3.25 out of 5

Highlights:

The Tease the Tear

Out of the Moving Life of Circles

Have synthstruments, will record. The mantra of 1984.

I get it. You guys are sad. 

So, some bands followed, say, The Moody Blues onto their prog-rock quasi-classical path. And some used The Beatles as their spirit guides. Seemingly no one in this era was interested in following The Stones or Zeppelin BUT many many many took their cues from Jim Morrison, either became Joy Division or Bauhaus or the like. Or they followed that Doors road toward the darkness, like The Cure and And Also the Trees. I found it somewhat effective. Would I return? I could be interested in what these guys come up with a few years down the line. Shouldn’t be too difficult. They have FOURTEEN albums in their catalog and released one as recently as 2016 (Born Into the Waves).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FEyEY3jnxQ&t=1375s