The High Llamas - Here Come the Rattling Trees (CD)

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While cycling around Peckham a few years ago, Sean O'€™Hagan decided that not only would the new High Llamas music be driven by narratives, but it would first have to be performed as theatre, blending stories, songs and soundtrack. The resultant piece, Here Come The Rattling Trees, was first performed in the Montpelier Theatre pub in Peckham in June 2014, before a week-long run at the Tristan Bates Theatre in Covent Garden in October.

The piece - and subsequent record - is built around six characters, whose stories transport the listener to the low key highs and lows of the British working week. Brought to life by a colourful array of electric, acoustic and synthetic instruments, alongside O'€™Hagan'€™s gentled vocals, it’s an incisive, sympathetic view to the wonders slipped between pages and too often missed in everyday life.