“North Carolinian singer-composer Ari Picker has Nick Drake speaking to him in one ear and Handel whispering in the other. His Anti- Records debut is spellbinding in its musical ambition, touching in its intimacy, and often overwhelming in its emotional honesty…Lost in the Trees is verging on creating a new genre of music. Call it neoclassical folk or acoustic pops, because Lost in the Trees turns the coffee house into the orchestra pit”
—Huffington Post