I like to keep in touch with artists who reach out to me or that I contact about featuring them on the site.
When James Nee, the mastermind behind We Are Trees, first got in touch with me back in July we got to email-chatting and have kept in touch since, and the dude’s one of the nicest guys around. Actually, scratch that, I don’t think describing someone as “nice” is fair. Let’s say he’s the coolest motherfucker on the block, that sounds better.
As I perused Rollo & Grady last week I saw that they’d posted a couple of demos by James so I wrote him an email to see if it was cool to post them. Even though he said he was slightly embarrassed by them he said it was cool, but he also said that he’s going to start recording some new tunes in a couple of weeks, with what may just be the best name for an EP that may never see the light of day (the name, that is).
As I was saying, I like crisps. The mountainous demos below could easily have featured on his “Boyfriend” EP, which is possibly the best EP of the year. They’re lower-fi than that of the EP, maybe because they’re demos, and the lyrics are more difficult to make out, probably because they’re demos, but the substance of the songs are still equally as excellent as that of Sunrise Sunset or Final Round.
He just released a limited pressing of his “Boyfriend” EP on 12″ so try your luck and see if you can snag one, I can guarantee you that We Are Trees will be huge.
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We Are Trees – “When I’m With You” (Best Coast Cover)
We Are Trees – “Rocky Mountains”
We Are Trees – “To Build A Mountain”
