Time Being

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Format Details: Lp

Release Date: 01 April 2022

Label: Big Scary Monsters

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 5060853700989

Genres: Rock

Description
Brooklyn-based alt-rock quartet Tree River are many things: unconventionally catchy; unequivocally loud; inventive songwriters. But the one thing that the band themselves find to be their defining feature is that they're perfectionists. As vocalist/guitarist Trevor Friedman puts it, "Every single line, every single word, has had a conversation about it." This level of care extends not just to the lyrics, but to the songwriting, the presentation, and everything about Tree River.

This is a band that cares deeply about everything they do.

Tree River started taking its first steps in 2010, as an embryonic solo project of Friedman's (hence the name, which is both a play on the name Trevor and evocative of the natural world-- a theme that would grow to be a central element of the band's identity and lyrics as time went on). Slowly, Friedman's best friend and fellow guitarist/vocalist Phil Cohen started to contribute-- pitching ideas for parts and arrangements, helping to flesh out lyrics and structures-- before eventually taking his place as the permanent other half of the project.

In the beginning of the partnership's life, the songs grew out of Friedman's abstract, stretchily metaphysical lyrics, and leaned more towards whispery textures, slow meditations, and freak-folk meanderings, all of which were captured on their 2014 effort Inward, which was recorded at the legendary Inner Ear in Washington, DC. However, with the addition of bassist Julie Rozansky, Tree River rolled into 2015 with a renewed sense of purpose and a radically reinvented approach to songwriting and performance. The band was playing live much more often, and the larger lineup and more collaborative atmosphere resulted in a bigger, heavy rock-oriented sound, which debuted in late 2016 with their second full-length, Dark Matter.

Tree River had begun to evolve into something that wasn't just new, it was reinvigorated--harder, better, faster, stronger, and certainly altogether louder.

Entering a new era which began with recording their EP Garden in 2018, the band had finally come into its own. Not only had they brought new, powerful drummer Zac Pless into the fold, they were also recording with Kevin Dye of Gates, who Cohen and Friedman also agree to be essentially the fifth member of the band ("our Nigel Godrich
figure"). The result is something completely its own--the band's appetite for influences is undoubtedly voracious, and yet it all comes out in a way that is wholly singular.

While Garden was a significant and impressive effort in and of itself, Tree River is gearing up to unleash their mammoth third LP Time Being in March 2022, with the backing of famed indie label Big Scary Monsters. Once again produced and mixed by Dye, the material on Time Being is a natural step forward for Tree River, and yet it's even
more visceral and uniquely catchy than anything they've released before. All of the music on the album had been written by March of 2020,
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