Album Review by Anders Rou Jensen
From Politiken (Dec93)
The depth and spreading of the english underground stage can perhaps be indicated by the fact that the 10-year-old quartet And Also The Trees is releasing their 10th album without eg. having their own entrance in the usually very thorough Rock-lexicon from Politiken.
On the Klaxon the quartet sounds like a vivid and relevant almost post-punk band which with succes continues the dark gloomy and serious english rock music from around 1980. An expression which often tends to be pompous and asthmatic but which on The Klaxon is fully lived through on the edge between the passionate and the pathetic, so that the music never stagnate or blackens. Up front the vocalist Simon Huw Jones sings like a trembling crooner from the inner circle around similar voices like Nick Cave or Marc Almond. And besides this, especially the guitarist Justin Jones stands for a remarkable contribution with a special, fragile, dripping and tender sonorous accompanement, which sounds like a trip with Hank Marvin in the ghost train after dark. It serves both lots of atmosphere and lots of spacial sound in the band's many fine songs on the Klaxon. And when once in a while a sad mournful trumpet pops up in the "sound picture", you know that AATT is a special cultband on a special mission in the outer zones of the mind.
[A.R.J]