Talking Trees
Bandname
Talking Trees
Country
UK
Musicstyle
Psych Folk
Homepage
Myspace
Contact
Sean Robert Chambers - voc, g
Stephen o´Sullivan - b
Steve Tucker - org, piano
Dan Barrow - dr
 5 Reviews / 1 Link
This delicate psychpop does remind one of the strong influence of the English kaleidoscope...wonderful phenomenal folkpop.
For music,attitude and patience:6 out of 6.
Editor,
"Guitars Galore" No:58,7.November 2002 Mike Korbik

...album of the month must surely go to "Talking Trees" debut..." Indiering

For purchasing of Talking Trees records contact:
talkingtreesales@aol.com B.Ward

Aural Innovations Talking Trees S/T Review below.
 

TALKING TREES: talkingtreesales@aol.com
www.talkingtrees.com
(Full article) on this band at: www.homepages.tesco.net/~beautiful.day/Talking%Trees.htm Barl Fire Records

Labelpage
Records:
Revolation
Record ID: 2254
Label
Wildshine Recordings
Released
2008
Time (minutes)
25
Tracks
6
Format
CD • No Vinyl
Musicstyle
Psych Rock • Psych Pop
 3 Reviews
I had been waiting for a new release from this band...and I must admit that I was surprised at Talking Trees new sound.
There is a real 'bite' to this mini-album, and the 6 songs leave you in absolutely no doubt that the band are undergoing a minor musical 'Revolation' of their own. This release is simply the strongest bunch of songs i've heard in a very long time. Criminally underrated, Talking Trees are probably the greatest band you've never heard!
For individual playing and musical vision 10/10. Brad Fielzer

Many times i've heard this band described as 'Folk-Rock.' When SRC sticks his foot down on a Cry-Baby on 'Return Victoriana' you just know these dudes really mean it.
This is a great ROCK album. I'd have liked more songs, but after the pure brilliance of second track 'Seagulls & Kings' these guys can do no wrong.
In fact, the above song; full of twisting Mellotron and fantastic Rickenbacker 12 string is genius. Sends a shiver down my spine like no other 'wanna-be' can manage.
SRC of Talking Trees is a genius. This is also a release of genius.
There's also a dead sexy pic of SRC on the inside sleeve! (I wouldn't mind waking up next to him!) Lot's of Love, Chan' Chantelle

After the goldrush www.THEBROKENFACE.BLOGSPOT.COM
Saturday , March 08, 2008.

Bicester, Oxon, U.K brings us TALKING TREES, a relatively unknown name in the psychedelic pop/folk heavens. The sunny vibe present on their brand new 'Revolation' www.talkingtrees.com works eminently well on a lovely spring day like this. There's something about these guys' take on Byrdsian pop, folk-tinged harmonies and intricate guitar patterns that has me smiling. Most of the '60's pop ingredients are present, but it's all peppered with some nicely baked jangly Flying Nun pop and delicate twee pop.
The whole thing clocks in at just less than 25 minutes and when it comes to this sort of sparkling pop that's certainly for the better. Mats Gustaffson

delusionland
Record ID: 2141
Label
Wildshine Records
Released
2006
Time (minutes)
45
Tracks
12
Format
CD • No Vinyl
Musicstyle
Psychedelic • Brit-Pop • Psych Rock
Remark
Follow up to debut album ' Talking Trees S/T'
 6 Reviews / 2 Links
"... This album's last track 'Athabasca' for instance, is a tour through Psychedelic tones as only The Beatles with their'Tomorrow Never Knows'or'I am the Walrus'have bettered..."

Twang Tone  

As an owner of the band's debut Talking Trees S/T, I was a little concerned that the band had split. Not so!
delusionland is the kind of neat album that in my personal opinion only someone of the genius of John Lennon could have written. The acerbic lyric to the stark 'Bread and Circuses'is a modern day Working Class Hero, with 'Athabasca' a nod to the mind bending closer of Revolver. The Byrds' influence can still be heard in the guitar work, but this is an album so distinct in it's own right it's silly to try to draw comparisons.
For me, the album contains the greatest song that's ever flowed off the pen of Sean Robert Chambers,'Mammon Mandarin'.'William' and 'Wake Up World'would make great singles and I rate this album as highly as The Pretty Things' S.F Sorrow.
A truly great full review Cy O'Neill

The songs are excellent Jerry kranitz

Talking Trees: 'delusionland' Wildshine Records 2006 Album The follow up of the debut has the same qualities as the previous album, perhaps in a more finished technical form. This is enjoyable and fashionable, almost-sing-a-long rythmic, simple and happy psychfolkpop with a 60's flower power pop flavour. Some tracks are more acoustic (like the brilliant 'Bread and Circuses'). The vocals have accents of 60's flavoured psychpop harmony vocals. A very fine album.


www.psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/psychfolkpopreview.html#anchor_51 Gerald Van Waes

TALKING TREES - 'delusionland'(C.D, Wildshine Records, www.talkingtrees.com
talkingtreesales@aol.com):-
Vor mehr als drei Jahren habe ich mich ausgesprochen begeistert vom damals nur als Demo erhaltlichen Debut des Sean Robert Chambers gezeigt. Inzwischen ist aus seinem Projekt Talking Trees eine echte Band geworden. Und nun Anfang 2006 gibt es auch ein neues, ein zweites Album. Was hat sich verandert? - Eigentlich gar nicht viel. Das Songwriting, die Arrangements atmen immer noch den Odem typisch britischer Psychedelia der spaten 60er und fruhen 70er Jahre. Folky, songorientiert, nie vollig abgedreht. Sehr hubsch, ziemlich vertraumt und fast wie erwartet nach einem ersten Album, das ich seinerzeit mit den englischen Kaleidoscope verglich. Was ist nun aber anders? - Die full review Mike Korbik

A dozen tracks of warmly melodic folk/rock harmonies and melodies. Gentle male vocals strung over chiming Byrds-like guitars, or mellow psychedelic unravelling. The vibe is sunny and upbeat, even when the songs are sad. All songs are written by Sean Robert Chambers, except for a lovely cover of the Kink's God's Children. There is a celtic influence, and some Americana as well; but it's all well assimilated into their cumulative character; which is ultimately nestled somewhere between Belle & Sebastian and Kings of Convenience.

George Parsons - Dream Magazinewww.dreamgeo.com
 George Parsons

Aural Innovation full Review
Terrascope review

s/t
Record ID: 1392
Label
September Gurls
Released
2002
Time (minutes)
60
Tracks
14
Format
CD • LP ?
Musicstyle
Psych Folk
 5 Reviews / 1 Link
This just so happens to be one of those albums that comes along so rarely these days-a full hours worth of strong melodies and intelligent lyrics.The Jefferson Airplane cover of "Lather" is quite simply breathtaking.The Byrds type harmonies and Rickenbacker 12 string do not detract from the fact that this is basically an extremely well crafted and constructed"Brit/psyche"album.Personal favourites"Steel Plastic Centipede",and the beautifully Mellotron laden"Music of the Spheres".
9 out of 10...BUY IT!!! Dandelion

I sometimes find it truly baffling that we live in an age where music as a media has to conform to the lowest common denominator. Why have I not heard of this band? This album deserves to be a No:1, yet I fear i've just contradicted myself. 10 out of 10. This record easily holds it's head up alongside Sgt.Pepper and Piper at the Gates of Dawn, yet retains it's individuality. Buy it.NOW!!! R.J.Taylor

- 80's to 00's Psychedelic Rock Albums.
'Talking Trees' is a wonderful example of an album that seamlessly straddles several genres, assimilates its influences and knowingly throws back something very much of it's own making.
5/5 'Beautiful Day' zine

All of the songs here are written by Sean Robert Chambers except for a cover of J.A's 'Lather' which sits on the album as if it was the bands own composition. There is a mystical feel to songs such as 'Dear Mrs. Somerset','Wicken Fen' and 'Somewhere upon Worlebury Hill'; however the 60's psyche influence comes to the fore on 'Faroe Smiles' with it's backward guitar solo and also on the extended guitar freakout of 'We Walk The Wheel'.
All in all an excellent debut, and one which will make me watch out for more from the band in the future. Feedback U.K # 71

Aural Innovations From England comes the debut album by folk/pop/psych ensemble Talking Trees. The promo sheet makes analogies to Jefferson Airplane, the Byrds and Simon and Garfunkel, and those couldn't be more accurate.
The album contains 14 tracks, all characterized by beautiful flowing melodies and tender folky vocals. The Byrds influence is mostly heard in the guitar patterns, and while Sean Robert Chambers doesn't necessarily sound like Simon or Garfunkel it's the singing that most reminds me of that classic duo.
And the songwriting is excellent. These are songs that will stick in your head after the first listen. 'Somewhere Upon Worlebury Hill' and 'Steel Plastic Centipede are among my favorites. They're both gorgeous slices of pop/psych with intricate little instrumental full review Jerry Kranitz

"Talking Trees" s/t On our homepage - says it all,really...BUY!
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Debut CD by UK band from Bicester,Oxon U.K. Sean Robert Chamber(Vocals/Acoustic and Electric Guitars - other"things")- Stephen O'Sullivan (Bass Guitar)- Steve Tucker (Hammonds,Piano,Mellotron)- Dan Barrow (Drums) first spun their "Unique" Psyche-folk/rock at the beginning of the year 2000, swiftly creating a subtle shifting of the morning mist which conceals the secret longing of the child in all... Out of this potpourri of sound and images began to pour works of strong melodic beauty... haunting ballads of yester-year fused with the late 60's psyche freedom, and hints of necessary self-preserving cynicism. "The very Soul of music is dying", says Sean Robert Chambers, "We simply must do more than merely paint over the rust". These words maybe "words", but they are touching a nerve in those who now wish to awaken. Ethereal, yet real: music for Mind and Body for our new millenia. "This album is a must for those who still strive to dream, For they shall manifest their dreams into reality". S.R.Chambers 11/06/2002. Buy record at ( CD 13.80 EUR) Greatest Hits Mailorder (D) change  


 

 
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