PNEUMATIC TUBES – A LETTER FROM TREETOPS
2022-02-14The album is a series of beautifully faded musical photographs, a paean to the wild landscapes of the Adirondacks and Catskills of Upstate New York where Chandler grew up. Gentle melodies are propelled along by synth arpeggiators or laidback sidestick and felt beater drums. Chandler’s wind instruments are woven throughout like wild vines binding the elements together. Towards the end of the album an underlying note of melancholy swells into grief during the very moving Witch Water, which is subtly underpinned with Marissa Nadler’s haunting voice. The clouds soon clear, the mountains reappear, and the wheel of the year and of the generations turns again as A Letter from TreeTops signs off with the same lilting melody on which it began.