-Fruit from the Trees on limited edition forest splatter wax, with two additional tracks, "Terrestrial Man" and "For the Birds"
Released in 2022, Van Cleaf's premiere full-length record Fruit from the Trees opens like a lost suitcase. Written across a span of seven years, the ten tracks are stashed with fables and fictions, letters to high school lovers, loose change in foreign currency, and a white bandana chalked in red Texas dust. Co-produced by Jamie Mefford (Nathaniel Rateliff, Gregory Alan Isakov) and Alberto Sewald (Katy Kirby), the record soars with sonic width that melds the folk-song precision of Dawes with a rumbled raucousness suggestive of The Killers.
The record was premiered on Atwood Magazine who calls his debut "achingly intimate, warm, and tender…a radiantly raw alt-folk reckoning in the depths of connection, emotion, and the human experience.”
- Album Artwork Images by Sam Lindsey