Album Review: Lost In The Trees - Past Life

The eerie-pop orchestral collective from North Carolina, led by heart-on-sleeve frontman Ari Packer,  follow up on their largely underrated but very good album, 2012's All Alone In An Empty House, with a less folk-leaning record, the pendulum swinging more towards dreamesque soundscaping and synth-based song arrangements. Like the previous album, it's another slow-diffusing album full of well thought-out composition and introspective (sometimes melancholic) light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel lyrics. Weary, rewarding and ultimately beautiful, it's that bit more accessible yet will still challenge the listener.