Danger Mouse Season’s Trees

Danger Mouse & Danile Luppi release “Season’s Trees”, the latest single to be taken from their super Spaghetti Western themed opus ‘Rome’.

“Season’s Trees” features the honeyed vocals of jazz poster girl Norah Jones wandering delicately over a backdrop provided mainly by a restless bassline and some slightly melancholy strings, all of which combine to present us with a track which could quite easily be from the Zero 7 songbook.

Danger Mouse Season’s Trees glides through your mind and Jones’ silk-tinged voice works perfectly as a vehicle here, providing the only real change in melody. This is both a strength and a weakness, as you want to listen to it again when it ends but this is mainly because you’re worried you’ve missed something. It’s great background music.

Dangermouse’s production & Luppi’s arrangement is subtle but effective, though, this is still destined to be one of those songs that ends up on a coffee table compilation, where people can say “Who’s singing?, is it Norah Jones?, good to hear she’s still doing something.”

‘Season’s Trees’ is out now on EMI.
‘Rome’ is also out now on EMI.

3 out of 5

By Robin Lewis
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