Abrasive Trees take their name from a Buddhist description of a hallucination-like nightmare realm. Led by Matthew Rochford (Silver Moth/Rothko), with Jay Newton (guitars), Will Tyler (drums), Georgia Swallow (bass) and visual artist Jess Wooller, they display a willingness to experiment alongside a sound that sits loosely within an experimental rock, post-punk or post-rock aesthetic.

The band have become known for their fierce and delicate threads of sound, shifting between sparkling instrumentals and explosive psychedelia.

Exploring themes including the complexity of loss, and the hugeness of just being alive, they use a combination of distorted and reverb-drenched guitars, intricate melodies and driving drum beats to create a sense of atmosphere and intensity. When they use lyrics they’re often cryptic and evocative, painting pictures of deep emotional or psychological landscapes.

Since they were founded in 2018, Abrasive Trees have released 4 EPs, a studio album, a compilation album and a live album. They have worked with an ever-evolving roster of musicians including members of Silver Moth, Fields of The Nephilim, Rothko, Diamond Family Archive, Quiet Quiet Band, Talitha Rise, and Eat Lights Become Lights.

After several releases lauded by BBC Introducing, Clash, XS Noize, Vive Le Rock, Echoes and Dust, Aural Aggravation, and The Big Takeover, the band released their much anticipated debut studio album in May 2026 via Italian doom label Argonauta Records to widespread critical acclaim.

Press
“A goth-streaked odyssey of spoken-word incantation, doom-laden flourishes and spectral walls of noise.”
CLASH

“Delirious, deftly executed and magnificently moody…a surging, seething engine of doom. It’s an exhilarating ride. Satisfyingly sinister, uncannily uplifting.”
XS Noize

“Light Remaining feels like the release Abrasive Trees have been building up to since their inception. It’s a sustained work of remarkable detail, nuance, but also density and force. Everything is perfectly realised. It’s huge. Sonically, conceptually, in terms of ambition and execution, the production… this is a peak, a new pinnacle.”
Aural Aggravation

“Gorgeous…ebbs and flows beautifully…defies description. It just needs to be heard to be believed. A solid debut from a striking band.”
Vive Le Rock







“A work that deftly explores the spiritual and aesthetic balance of light and dark through 7 tracks of anthemic post-rock experimentalism.”
Means Mag

“Blending experimental rock, post-rock, and dark psychedelic textures, the album captures the band at their most focused and expressive…an immersive sonic journey.”
Moshville Times

“Feels like a widescreen evolution. The record moves with a slow, deliberate gravity, spectral guitars dissolving into low‑end pressure, fragile passages collapsing into towering crescendos. It’s an album that breathes, one that treats space as an instrument and pacing as a narrative tool.”
Musomuso

“Swirling guitars that sound like sitars leading the charge…stunning…there’s much promise for this band.”
Echoes & Dust

“Post-punk psychedelia…Abrasive Trees deal an evocative and mysteriously mystical, poetic, dark energy that is utterly enticing”
Louder Than War

“There is something brilliant about watching a band this adept at their trade”
The Big Takeover

“A colossal slab of melancholic melodies, harmonies, arpeggiated chord progressions, and other post-punk/psych-rock delicacies”
Words Thoughts Action

“A stunning, grungy, moody debut”
BBC Introducing

“A sonic narrative, with intricate layers of wandering bass and spectral guitar melodies that give way to gliding flourishes, bringing forth an atmospheric song whose echoing vocals haunt every moment”
Post-Punk.com