THE HALO TREES

Have you heard the band of The Halo Trees? Not often the style of music I usually write about here on Muzik Mag Sweden but the two previews that is out now from them and their label of COP International is amazing, stunning music with beautiful vocals, their soft indierock/pop sound is more electronic on the upcoming album, so a must have. I have heard the album and, wow, goosebumps for sure.

About The Halo Trees: 

The Halo Trees, that’s deep, melancholic music with plenty of room for the voice and handmade instrumentation. A comforting sound universe, inspired by David Bowie, Editors, Mark Lanegan, The National or Nick Cave. A mixture of indie-rock, pop, wave and post-rock with many tom-toms, melodic basslines, atmospheric guitars, catchy violin and sonorous, warm vocals. 

The album "Electric Mirror" are set to be released on November 22 and right now you can pre-order the album on their Bandcamp. 

Pressrelease: 

Half a year after the release of their latest album "Where The Deep Ends", the Berlin-based dark indie rock band The Halo Trees announces their next release. To coincide with their European tour as support for Front Line Assembly, the band is releasing an album with electronic remakes of their songs - a kind of alternative path parallel to their rock releases. 

"Electric Mirror", the title of the upcoming album, is not a classic remix album, but was produced entirely by the band themselves. All songs that are known as rock versions from the formation's previous albums have been given new electronic arrangements, remodeled and with re-recorded vocals from singer Sascha Blach, presenting a completely new facet of the band's sound. 

The album's musical spectrum ranges from clubby, driving numbers to quiet, ambient tracks that sound spherical, wide and weightless. There are always interesting sound experiment in the songs - and not everything is purely electronic. The band's new violinist, Georges-Emmanuel Schneider, ran his violin through endless effect chains for various songs to transform its sound into spacey soundscapes that sound truly timeless. Guitar textures and percussion were also recorded to refine the new song versions dominated by synths and drum machines. 

Sascha is also accompanied by three guests on the microphone. A new version of "Cardboard Cities" was recorded with the Berlin choir Stimmgewalt, in which Sascha and the choir embark on a powerful duet that gives you goosebumps. In the super-melancholic "In This House Of Sadness", Behind Your Fear singer Stefanie Duchêne can be heard as a guest singer, who some may still know as the singer of Flowing Tears. In "Time And Tide Wait For No Man", however, things get clubbier and harder and Sascha delivers a striking duet with Die Kammer frontman Marcus Testory. 

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