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Tree Spirits

by From Nursery To Misery

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Cry Me 03:56
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Poison 04:05
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Gallop Along 01:31
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Aeroplanes 02:46
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From Nursery to Misery crawl back to Dark Entries with Tree Spirits, the follow up to 2017’s Pixies In The Woods. The project was founded in 1987, when producer and keyboardist Lee Stevens invited identical twins Gina and Tina Fear over to record in his home studio in Basildon, Essex. Four years of prodigious studio experimentation followed, resulting in two full length cassettes (1989’s The Oak Tree and 1990’s Equilibrium), and a split EP with Nostalgie Eternelle in 1990. Stalwarts of the Mail Art scene, they also appeared on over 22 cassette compilations, home-dubbed in true DIY fashion, before splitting in 1991.
The eleven tracks on Tree Spirits display From Nursery to Misery’s signatures: chunky drum machine patterns, playfully eerie synth melodies, and Tina and Gina’s stark, nursery rhyme-esque vocals. The lyrical content ranges from dreary to grim; they explore existential despair, sexual violence, and death through an acerbic, feminist lens. Inspired by the Bladerunner soundtrack and 4AD, Lee’s production is alternatingly warm and icy, like a glacier wrapped in analog tape hiss. Stylistically, the tracks range from charmingly miserable synth pop on “Cry Me”, to the clanging rhythmic industrial of “The Daily Raper”, and even a haunting flute driven instrumental with “A Summer Morning Trip Through The Misty Woods”. From Nursery to Misery are a pure expression of the British DIY aesthetic, which is made all the more captivating by the band’s own confession that they were just trying to make pop music!
All songs on Tree Spirits were remastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studios. The cover art by Eloise Leigh features a photograph of the twins posing dramatically in the woods.

credits

released August 20, 2021

(C) 2021 Dark Entries Records
All songs written, composed, performed and produced by From Nursery To Misery
From Nursery To Misery are Gina Fear, Tina Fear, Lee Stevens
Tape Transfer by Joe Tarantino
Remastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley
Illustrations by Gina & Tina Fear
Design: Eloise Leigh
Thank you Matthew Reed, Gina & Tina Fear, George Horn, Joe Tarantino and Eloise Leigh.

A4,A6 originally released on The Oak Tree cassette self released 1989
B2,B4,B5 originally released on Equilibrium cassette self released 1990
B3 originally released on Art Is The Tool cassette by One Last Dream 1990
A1 originally released on New Hippies Volume 3 by Red Neon Tapes 1991
A3 originally released on Hopeful World by Tears Compilations 1990
A5 originally released on Home-Made Music For Home-Made People Vol. 8 by Insane Music 1990
A2,B1 previously unreleased

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