sweet gum tree

With a debuting full length platter due out early next year via dreamy bird entitled ‘the snakes you charm and the wolves you tame’, sweet gum tree is in essence the solo work of Arno Sojo’s with occasional assistance from various sorts from the Tindersticks, the Church and as found on this quite arresting showcasing teaser ’bird of passage’ a certain Isobel Campbell formerly on the gentle waves and belle and Sebastian. Deceptively alluring a cut it is to, don’t be fooled by its winter-esque charms for here mellowed and murmured are the teasing cascades of radiant baroque folk pop flowering amid the pastoral inclines as it trembles and softly swoons to the peaking arcs of weaving strings arrangements and the prettified bouquet of whispered secret love notes. Entrancing stuff.