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CMU Approved
Approved: Taken By Trees
By Aly Barchi | Published on Wednesday 12 September 2012
Coloured by the time she spent in Hawaii, ex-Concretes singer (and the voice of Peter Bjorn & John’s ‘Young Folks’) Victoria Bergsman’s new LP as Taken By Trees – ‘Other Worlds’ – sounds just that, beautifully insular and untethered from all and any offshore absolutes.
Take its first single ‘Dreams’, a hyper-real hallucination in luau-style guitars with a tropic dub remix to match, or its strings-gilded sequel ‘Large’, whose birdsong outro was taped live at a Hawaiian sunrise:
‘Other Worlds’ is out for purchase via Secretly Canadian from 1 Oct.