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A Church That Fits Our Needs

Lost In The Trees

A Church That Fits Our Needs

Second album of folk / indie pop from the North Carolina band led by Ari Picker

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7.5

Label
Anti/Epitaph
UK Release date
20/03/2012
US Release date
20/03/2012
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  1. 9.0 |   All Music

    Draws heavily from his [Ari Picker] classical training, yet maintains a smart, accessible core that brings to mind Sufjan Stevens at his least quirky
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  2. 8.8 |   Beats Per Minute

    Lost In The Trees has constructed a beautiful memorial for the soul of Ari Picker’s mother to rest in
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  3. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    This may be one of the best records of the year so far
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  4. 8.0 |   Under The Radar

    The tracks on A Church are beatifically mournful, its orchestrations minor key, and its vocals sung by an author distinctly heavy of heart
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  5. 8.0 |   Paste Magazine

    The album is stirring without wallowing; it can move even the listener who knows nothing of the backstory
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  6. 8.0 |   Prefix

    Too deep in its emotion to idly listen to, and too warm in its instrumentation to wear you down, this record proves a strange, incomplete comfort -- one that embraces loss as much as it tangles with it
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  7. 8.0 |   Rave Magazine

    The tragedy that inspired and plagues this album seems to be offered as a celebration rather than an exercise in mourning
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  8. 7.0 |   Blurt

    A stirring coda that embraces the aftermath of despair, ringing with a resilience that's inspired, ambitious, mesmerizing and majestic
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  9. 7.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    The album is as intricate and well-crafted as a Radiohead release, with highly emotional content that was inspired by the recent suicide of frontman Ari Picker’s mother
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  10. 7.0 |   Spin

    A mother’s suicide inspires moving orchestral folk, beauty and hope found amid grief
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  11. 6.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Over the course of a dozen songs, frontman Ari Picker tries to make sense of his mother's suicide against a backdrop of rich orchestration
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