
Built on a sturdy, wistful melody, it's easy to connect the dots with the Dead Trees' "Shelter" to many middle class indie touchstones: Pavement, Wilco, and any number of slightly-country influenced bands all too common in heavily saturated blog-rock world. "Shelter" might suffer the same fate as, well, Tapes 'n Tapes if not for the song's saving grace: a weightless, shimmering bridge that carries it from ho-hum and easily-digestible rock to a rollicking, loose-limbed finale. Originally recorded on last year's Fort Music EP , the new version finds the band ditching the whistle-led intro and jumping [...]