Album Of The Day: Solace by Held By Trees

Album Art of Held By Trees's Solace album - Surrounded by a thick white border, detailed artwork of a nature scene in surrealist, multicolored style. The sky is a bright pink in a few different hues, with an aqua blue body of water near the horizon on the right. The foreground is filled with plants in a variety of blues, greens and browns with some funky patterns to them. In the middle is a brown tree with some blue water clinging to its top side. Sitting on the branches and flying in the air as well as peering around the bushes on the ground is various animals. In the border on the top, printed in black, is the band name, and printed similarly at the bottom is the album title.

Held By Trees is an English post-rock band, and by that I mean it's a band that is somewhat rock in style, but also uses a lot of other musical elements and sounds in a bit of an experimental way. This release, Solace, is their first full-length album and it's mostly a laid-back, calm instrumental album. You can certainly hear the guitars, drums and bass, but there's bits of keyboard, organ, strings, reeds, and lots more sounds in there. I'm not sure if some of them just sound like nature of animals or if the musicians are making those sounds with their instruments at some points. This is one of those bands I've only heard of in the last few years and it's been such a pleasure to find this new, beautiful music. As it's instrumental, it's often something I listen to while reading a book, but it's also great for a more focused listen too.

Release Year: 2023
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