Somewhat along the same lines as Fennesz's "Endless Summer", [](http://www.almostcool.org/mr/450/)Arbor is a release that probably started out as something more organic, but has since been tweaked (sometimes subtley and sometimes not quite so) into something that isn't really folk, yet isn't really straight electronic either. Labeled "laptop folk" by the Carpark website (a name that actually describes it quite well), it's a release that was obviously created with a human hand, yet skips and shimmers along with subtle touches that could have only come with digital trickery.
Whereas I mentioned Fennesz earlier, Arbor is quite different in that it isn't nearly as processed sounding. While there are barely any moments on Endless Summer[](http://www.almostcool.org/mr/450/) that can be picked out as actual guitar parts, Davis still anchors most of the tracks with lovely guitar melodies and builds on them from there. Because of this, it doesn't feel like nearly as an opressive listen, instead bouding along with some light pastoral energy that fans of Four Tet's latest [Pause](http://www.almostcool.org/mr/439/) would probably enjoy. By the time the album titled closing track of "Arbor" rolls around, there's hardly any manipulation, except for a subtle bleed at the very end, as if the laptop has been packed away, and the realization is there that one doesn't need a lot of noise to make a point.
