Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9½ /10

The third album by The Riotous Brothers, The Tree, starts like a feeling of pure exhilaration and ends up with you wanting to weep for all the right reasons and take each song to your heart. If an album can really take you to places that you cannot go to in your physical life then this is the same sensation you might get when you read Wuthering Heights, Far from The Madding Crowd, Moby Dick or Edward Rutherford’s Sarum for the first time in the quiet slumber of deep forest surrounded by the dying embers of a perfect summer’s day.