Track Listing

1. Magic Weather
2. The Horse
3. Over The Hill
4. Ibbon Lakes
5. Constellations
6. The Asteroids Collide
7. Woman
8. Memory Box
9. Hummingbird
10. The Dog
11. Glendorn

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6856 in Music
• Released on: 2009-05-04
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: CD
• Dimensions: .9 pounds

CD Description
Debut full-length album from this hotly-tipped, London-based artist whose work has already invited comment that she may be "the next Laura Marling". Notes From The Treehouse features musical contributions from members of Bright Eyes: the songs themselves are winsome, spooky, psychedelic folk tunes.

Customer Reviews

Perfectly Pleasant
Ms Laurent-Marke (aka, with add-ons, Alessi's Ark) is
yet another MySpace baby launched out into a big,
bad, dangerous musical world.

'Notes From The Treehouse' is, on the whole, a perfectly
pleasant experience. It's not rocket-science and nothing
wrong with that of course.

Ms L-M has a perfectly pleasant voice and has written
twelve perfectly pleasant songs for her album debut.
( You're probably getting the idea by now so I won't labour the point ! )

Quaint, insubstantial ditties, inoffensive and not especially memorable.
Music for a wet Sunday afternoon indoors.

If forced to choose I would probably pick 'Woman' as the best
of the bunch. A little mannered, a little hippy-trippy.
Ms L-M shapes the fragile melody and words in a curiously
affected way. It is to be hoped that this way of singing
does not settle down into a fixed habit for the future.
Its appeal will be limited. She is young however and with a
few tweaks and shakes the future may yet be bright for her.

In 'Hummingbird' we might imagine finding her singing in a
sunlit forest clearing surrounded by men in green tights
dancing and playing recorders. ( Then again we might not! ).

Final track 'Cotton and Thread' finds our heroine snuffling
and shuffling around ambiguously but managing at the same
time to create what is perhaps the most distinctive and
original composition on the album.
If she is able to hold her nerve and distil her muse there
are indications that exploring such an imaginative seam may
reap richer rewards in the future.

The production and musical accompaniment is a tad stodgey
and unrefined. Homogenous and lumpen truth-be-told.

A Singer/Songwriter with potential not yet fully realised.

Time alone will tell.

another teenage wonder !
Talked about as the next Laura Marling ! which is actually a bit unfair to both of them.Simply because they are both 18ish, British female singer songwriters doesn't mean their music is similar , they're not. She's probably closer to Laura Veirs than Laura Marling and even that's stretching it a bit. Her voice reminds me most of an Australian teenage singer songwriter Lisa Mitchell. Anyway I won't try and describe the music, suffice to say it is intelligent beyond it's years and quirky and varied and well worth buying as is the Horse e.p and for that matter so are all the artists mentioned above. All absolutely amazing.

Dreamy folk/pop
This is one of the best debut albums of the year so far.
Standout songs are the fairytale waltz 'Constellations' and the Kate Bush-esque 'Asteroids Collide'. Perfect listening for a long hot summer.