Slap Magazine's review of our single ‘Dream of the Endless’ 2023
https://www.slapmag.co.uk/single-review-dream-of-the-endless-by-the-arboretum/
That huge bass line deserves whopping drums to match and the band don’t disappoint, quickly adding a thunderous, unforgiving pounding. Hard, razor-sharp guitars start up, that blow through the music like a storm wind, whipping and slashing across the mix.
Slap Magazine's review of our single ‘The Eyes’ 2023
https://www.slapmag.co.uk/single-review-the-eyes-by-the-arboretum/
The song picks up its own propulsive momentum of heavy dark, fuzzy guitars that would give a metal band a run for its money.
Slap Magazine's review of Alum ‘Falls the Shadow’ 2021
https://www.slapmag.co.uk/falls-the-shadow-by-the-arboretum-album-review/
Fall The Shadows is an intriguing, inventive and thought-provoking state of the nation address, the perfect soundtrack to these troubled and uncertain times.
Slap Magazine's Review of Liquid Planet October 2020
https://www.slapmag.co.uk/liquid-planet-by-the-arboretum-single-review/
A piercingly relevant and paramount track........ undoubtingly a political testimony surrounding the current issue of climate change.
Slap Magazine's Review of Beyond This Horizon Sept 2020
https://www.slapmag.co.uk/the-arboretum-beyond-this-horizon-single-review/
It’s like an epic, wide-screen, post-electronica gothic that aims to lift you out of yourself, almost as an out of body experience.
Slap Magazine's Review of Emergence Sept 2020
https://www.slapmag.co.uk/the-arboretum-emergence-single-review/
The sonic space is squeezed and squeezed until you can’t feel the breath in your body or your mind .
Slap Magazine's review of Cortex July 2020
https://www.slapmag.co.uk/the-arboretum-cortex-cerebral-re-mix-single-review/
The imploring and beseeching voice is for me the sound of twitter, Facebook, the BBC, Instagram, state-briefings, fake news, election rallies and those poorly labelled slides…collective moral panic.
Slap Magazines review of Parallaxis June 2020
https://www.slapmag.co.uk/the-arboretum-parallaxis-single-review/
''the louder it is the better it sounds''
''it is a thoughtfully produced ‘hard hitting rock dance groove’ with nice effects; all throbbing synths/guitars, ‘grimy bass’ and drums''
Read Slap Magazines fab review of Bone-Saw May 2020
https://www.slapmag.co.uk/the-arboretum-bone-saw/
Pressing play…the inhuman industrialised wall of electronica contrasts with the sensitive and the ethereal breathless human voice…this is Munch’s the Scream put to music.