Blog: The Line Of Best Fit

Rarely has there been such a gaping disparity between how little a band promise on paper and their actual earth-battering prowess. Essentially, Arbouretum specialise in strictly un-ironic psychedelic boogie. Imagine riff-repeater chiefs Endless Boogie without the knowing smirk, or Gandalf-metal practitioners Dead Meadow with a vastly superior singer, and you’re not far off the Baltimore quartet’s signature sound. All of which might sound distinctly off-putting; stoner-rock taken to the ludicrous extremes where the heavy-lidded musicians have lost all sense of just how daft their single-minded devotion to heroically extended fretboard explorations and lyrics dabbling in various mythical/mystical [...]