August 20, 2017
Light In The Attic
2xLP (Standard Black Vinyl, Purple Vinyl)
Simply put, Even a Tree Can Shed Tears is among coolest records Blackbyrd has stocked, full stop. It's both the first ever full-licensed compilation of the "New Music" born of Japan's reaction to the British Invasion and Americana that had swept the world beyond the meandering alleys of Tokyo's Shibuya ward. It's the first entry in Light In The Attic's Japanese Archival Series, which includes shop favs Kankyō Ongaku and Somewhere Between. It's contents, an assortment of acoustic reveries, is as breathtaking as its cover. It's records like this that make a listener feel like they've stumbled on something incredible, some treasure from an otherwise hidden world. Because that's precisely what Even A Tree Can Shed Tears; hidden treasure.