On The Shore

by Trees

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1.	Soldiers Three 01:50	buy track
2.	Murdoch 05:09	buy track
3.	Streets Of Derry 07:34	buy track
4.	Sally Free And Easy 10:08	buy track
5.	Fool 05:22	buy track
6.	Adam's Toon 01:12	buy track
7.	Geordie 05:05	buy track
8.	White The Iron Is Hot 03:20	buy track
9.	Little Sadie 03:10	buy track
10.	Polly On The Shore 06:09	buy track

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It’s now over fifty years since Trees’ formation, a band who helped define ‘Acid Folk’, creating a sub-category in the lexicon of record dealers and music critics alike.

“A beautiful hybrid, Trees found a unique space between intimate folk and freewheeling psychedelia. Musically ambitious yet brilliantly balanced, they have left an enduring legacy for those lucky enough to be in on the secret” Edd Gibson, Friendly Fires

Released just months after their debut second album, ‘On The Shore’ sees a shift from the first record into something darker and more ambivalent with an arcane Englishness.The product of an era characterised by clunky polemic, arcadian sentimentality or English fuzzy-felt surrealism, the album, like all classic records, is so much greater than the sum of its parts. Opening with ‘Soldiers Three’, learned from Dave Swarbrick, the album includes another traditional tune and one of the definitive moments in English folk rock ‘Polly On The Shore’ alongside ’Sally Free and Easy’ and ‘Streets of Derry’.

Following the recently released and highly praised Trees 50th Anniversary box set on Earth Recordings, Trees reissue their second album as a standalone release.

“When we are talking about psych folk or acid folk, we are really talking about music like this by Trees” Stuart Maconie, BBC6 Music

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released February 1, 2021

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