She’s In The Trees - The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (2024)

Also referring to a novelist, in this case Carson McCullers, we have She’s In The Trees, an “alt folk” trio, who hail, like AUK, from the People’s Republic of Liverpool. Nice to know but that doesn’t give them a free pass here. Fortunately their debut album, “The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter” doesn’t require much glad handling as it’s quite the delight. Their laid-back and wispy songs are enlivened by delicate vocals from Amy Scott-Samuel who says that her songs are inspired by a host of intriguing characters, misfits & outcasts she has met during a lifetime of travelling. The songs, for the most part, are intimate with the stringed instruments (guitars, cello, violin and such) almost whispered as on ‘The Changes Between Us’ and the darkly impressionistic ‘Bitter Wind’ a song which begs comparison to Mazzy Star. When they head into gothic Americana as on ‘Mama I Have Sinned’ they are darkly delicious.