Take By Trees is Victoria Bergsman's new project. You may recognise Victoria's utterly unique voice as that which formerly graced The Concretes. Now, after much deliberation and thought, Victoria has decided to follow her instincts and record a debut album of her own. She is aided and abetted by fellow Peter Bjorn & John cohorts Bjorn Yttling on various instruments and string arrangements and John Eriksson on all 'very personal' percussion instruments, marimba and vibraphone. The album also features guitar by Andreas Soderstrom, plus Verity Susman from Electrelane, who provided piano arrangements as well as backing vocals. Victoria and Bjorn produced the album together, and the first single & clip 'Lost And Found' is penned by Tracyanne Campbell of Scottish act Camera Obscura. The name Taken By Trees was chosen for this new musical adventure partly because of Victoria's explicit love of trees, Victoria has clearly returned to the basic things that she loves in order to move forward creatively with her music and this inherently beautiful record is the stunning result. The album was deliberately recorded in a fast and spontaneous manner. It was recorded in 6 days straight with Victoria refusing the musicians the chance to get to know the songs too well beforehand in a conscious attempt to keep the recordings alert, full of energy and not overcook them. The songs were developed from the vocal melody up, with only that instrumentation deemed entirely necessary added, keeping the songs true to the ideas which inspired them, as Victoria says "To see how my voice can stand almost alone". You'll find 'Open Field' packed with stark, delicate pop melodies. Victoria has the sort of voice that stops you in your tracks and demands you listen. Her hauntingly poignant voice, at times brimming with uplifting spirit and then by turns disarmingly plaintive is deeply beguiling. We think it's fair to say that this is a very special record, nothing short of gorgeous in fact.