The Hydrogen Trees are a Scarborough based, analogue, audio-visual project. Utilising defunct recording machines, obsolete cassette porta studios, dictaphones, photography and mobile phone videos. Purveyors of the most hauntingly beautiful songs, laconic gems submerged in a fog of lo-fi home recording fuzz and frustration.
Meticulous artwork and videos offering up an interconnected web of injokes, weird visual references correlating with specific tracks combined with unique one off, limited releases all presented to you with love. Pay attention – the gift that is The Hydrogen Trees is yours for the finding.
Secret Arcade their first full length album contains 15 songs submerged in the warm, warped hiss of worn tapes and dodgy Dolby coupled with an ever expanding universe of donated kit. Preorder available now, full album release 8th December 2023 with immediate access to Collapsing Field Of Everything.
Sylvia is a two track single release. Sylvia was recorded on a Tascam 4-track that has seen better days and then mixed down to a stereo cassette deck.Pyrite Suplex was recorded through the built in mic of an old Ferguson mono cassette recorder, with minor overdubs added in mixdown to the stereo deck
Fairground Archives Vol. 1 Broken ornaments, orphans, discarded bingo cards, off-cuts, remnants, experiments, tethered memories, forgotten gems, attic dwellers. Fairground Archives Vol. 1 is a collection of 8 abandoned strays scratching to escape the rusty Hydrogen Tree vault. Recorded on vintage tape decks at the point of collapse. Each track is built on fragments welded together to create a disjointed collage of songs from the underbelly of British seaside fatigue.
Refrigerator EP Released 12.30pm, 5th September 2022 to coincide with the self-anointment of the new CONservative leader and British Prime Minister. A 9 track EP released on a pay what you can basis recorded on repaired, defunct cassette recorders
Back Down Woe Betide Ravine: EP A collection of five songs revelling in surreal grandeur; vignettes of Scarborough’s faded glory split by years of neglect and austerity. A vision of fibreglass seahorses and broken light bulbs cut through with northern wit, beautifully laconic storytelling charm and honesty.
Music:The Hydrogen Trees//Mastered:Simon Willey//Videos:Pulp Tupla
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