Fanatic Promotion: Tree Machines reveals “Up For Air” full track list, cover art, title cut. Los Angeles-based band’s two-year labor of love arrives Sept. 22nd.

Record release show at Hotel Café set for Sept. 29^th; Album sampler available now via Noisetrade; Hear “Up For Air” title track via Impose.

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Tree Machines (L-R): Douglas Wooldridge, Patrick Aubry. Photo by Kasia Nawrocka.

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Tree Machines – In The Press

“A big, urgent, liberating sound.” (Buzzbands.la) | “Anthemic.” (The Wild) | “Gleaming placidity.” (BlackBook) | “Some LA soul that indie pop needs.” (Popdust) | “Viciously human.” (Atwood) | “Emotionally staggering.” (Diffuser) | “Best new rock song of the year.” (BULLETT) | “Beautifully brutal.” (Innocent Words) | “I’ve been unable to stop listening.” (Gold Flake Paint) | “Hope and illumination.” (The Vinyl District) | “Heart-quickening sentimentality.” (MAGNET) | “Best thing I’ve heard all week.” (Daytrotter)

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Los Angeles! Join Tree Machines at Hotel Café on Fri., Sept. 29^th for the Up For Air record release show! TIX | RSVP

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PLAY, POST & SHARE

“A new sound. You can hear the band experimenting with folk electronics.” – Impose with the premiere of “Up For Air”. Listen here or at the links below!

[YOUTUBE]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1LjkjW1NRc

[SOUNDCLOUD]: https://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/tree-machines-up-for-air

[MP3]: http://www.fanaticpr.com/treemachines/treemachines-upforair.mp3

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Tree Machines shares the "Up For Some ‘Up For Air’" album sampler with Noisetrade and sits for an extensive interview with Noisetrade’s Will Hodge.

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“I wanted to create something that was a little more retro and hip hop-inspired,” says Mike Giffin, the behind-the-scenes producer and multi-instrumentalist in Tree Machines about “Up For Air,” the title track from the band’s upcoming debut album, out Sept. 22^nd. Hear it now via Impose. “Almost instantly, Doug (Wooldridge, the band’s lyricist and vocalist) came up with the catchy melody and rhythmic patterns that are still there in the song to this day. Who knew it was going to be the album’s title track?”

Wooldridge concurs, “I’ve always had an affinity for this song ever since Mike brought the beat in for us to listen to. While making this album, we’ve recorded about 20 or so tracks and Mike kept trying to add this one it to the pile of songs ‘not quite ready for release,’ but each time I’d come into the studio and see ‘Up For Air’ missing from the list, I’d put it back in defiance! Now that everything is said and done, it’s one of my favorite songs on the album.”

About his lyrics on the cut, Wooldridge explains, “Some of this album deals with loneliness and the feeling of being in a wholly unfamiliar place trying to figure out what we’re doing out here on the West Coast and if we can even keep our heads above water long enough to keep going, even if it’s only for one more day.”

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Relocated from Lawrence, Kansas, Tree Machines built a safe room in Los Angeles. Not for security of the conventional kind, but for a place to unleash, and make the kind of music that is at once vulnerable and strong, without fear of consequence. Anthems for times that don’t make sense, but carve a path forward.

Here, Douglas Wooldridge (vocalist, lyricist), bandmate Patrick Aubry, and producer Mike Giffin (all three contribute to the various instrumentation and music) spent two years creating Up For Air, the debut Tree Machines full-length album, scheduled for release on the band’s Man In The Machine label on Sept. 22^nd.

Up For Air follows-up 2015’s debut Tree Machines EP, which contained the band’s first single “Fucking Off Today,” a difficult-to-ignore opening salvo that expressed Midwestern malaise (which these former Kansans know all too well) in a new way. Three more Tree Machines singles appeared during the summer of that year.

Members of Tree Machines are available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Tree Machines

Up For Air
(Man In The Machine)

September 22^nd, 2017