aaamusic | On 07, May 2012

Four years after the nostalgic notes of Until, Kathryn Bint comes back with a new album, Into The Trees.
Produce by Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet, the album takes the most advantage from the husky voice of the Chicago-based songwriter and projects the listener to the best of Americana that is been produced over the last years.
She Was Out In The Water shows all the talent of Hebden with the wave of beats that provides intensity to the track and its gentle crescendo’s. In the same way, the soft electronic background of Simmer Down Simmer provides more texture to the melodies of Bint. Sometimes, the contribution of Hebden seems unnecessary, as with the superfluous interlude of Bloom, but this doesn’t spoil an otherwise excellent work.
Into the Trees, which saw the collaboration of Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood as well, gives more depth to the repertoire of Kathryn Bint and a variety absent in her first album. Moody and profound, has the potential to attract a whole new type of fans, especially those who found Until a bit too sugary to be taken seriously.

Lorenzo Coretti