Treeboy & Arc - Natural Habitat

After forming in 2016, Leeds quintet Treeboy & Arc released two singles on the city’s Come Play With Me Records label and the infamous Speedy Wunderground respectively before they set about recording their debut album.

After four days, recording live with each track bleeding into the next, the band entered 2020 in high spirits with plans well underway for the album’s release and subsequent touring activity. You know the next bit.

Afforded the opportunity to reflect on their work, and as the lockdowns wore on, the five members of the band (drummer Isaac Turner, bassist James Kay, synth player Sam Robinson and guitarists George Townsend and Ben Morgan) bravely decided that their sound had moved on and opted to scrap the whole project.

Instead, they sent demos back and forth to one another over 2020/21 and, restrictions permitting, recorded the Life Preserver EP before developing this new ‘debut’ album. A long and complicated road to get to where they are, but where is that?

https://www.live4ever.uk.com/2023/07/review-treeboy-and-arc-habitat/