From Nursery To Misery Spawning Beds
Taken from Tree Spirits From Nursery to Misery crawl back to Dark Entries with Tree Spirits, the follow up to 2017s 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 (1989s The Oak Tree and 1990s Equilibrium), and a split EP with Nostalgie Eternelle in 1990. Stalwarts of the Mail Art scene, they also appeared on over 22 cassette compilations, homedubbed in true DIY fashion, before splitting in 1991. The eleven tracks on Tree Spirits display From Nursery to Miserys signatures: chunky drum machine patterns, playfully eerie synth melodies, and Tina and Ginas stark, nursery rhymeesque vocals. The lyrical content ranges from dreary to grim; they explore existential despair, sexual violence, and death th
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