If These Trees Could Talk
Cinematic, guitar-driven landscapes that trade long ambient drifts for muscular riffs and urgent rhythms. Instrumental rock with a heavy, forest-thick atmosphere.
Cinematic, guitar-driven landscapes that trade long ambient drifts for muscular riffs and urgent rhythms. Instrumental rock with a heavy, forest-thick atmosphere.
If These Trees Could Talk creates music that feels like a physical force. While many of their post-rock peers are content to drift in ambient clouds for ten minutes before a payoff, this Akron quintet operates with a sense of purpose and momentum. Their sound is defined by a massive, three-guitar attack that weaves intricate, math-influenced melodies into towering walls of sound. It is cinematic and grand, yet grounded by a grit that leans toward post-metal.
What truly sets them apart is their efficiency. They utilize the 'quiet-loud' dynamic but skip the filler, moving into heavy, riff-oriented sections with an urgency that feels more like a rock band than a meditative collective. The drumming is particularly active, providing a driving heartbeat that prevents the atmospheric reverb from ever feeling stagnant. It is music that evokes vast natural landscapes, but with the kinetic energy of a live performance.
Start with 'Red Forest' to hear them at their most evocative and balanced. It captures the perfect intersection of their melodic sensitivity and their ability to unleash crushing, rhythmic crescendos. If you prefer something slightly more aggressive and polished, 'The Bones of a Dying World' showcases their evolution into a more complex, metal-adjacent powerhouse.
If These Trees Could Talk is an American instrumental post-rock band from Akron, Ohio. They self-released their self-titled debut EP in 2006. Independent record label the Mylene Sheath re-issued the EP on vinyl in 2007 and went on to publish the band's debut studio album, Above the Earth, Below the Sky, on vinyl also, in 2009. The band self-released their second album, Red Forest, in March 2012, with a vinyl version coming out through Science of Silence Records. They followed it with a self-promoted tour throughout Europe in April 2012. If These Trees Could Talk issued their third album, The Bones of a Dying World, in June 2016, on Metal Blade Records. All their previous releases were subsequently re-issued in 2021 and 2022 on the same label. In February 2024, they published the single "Trail of Whispering Giants", their first new material in nearly eight years.
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Shares post-rock, post-metal (subgenres); absent, instrumental only (vocal style)
Shares post-rock, post-metal (subgenres); absent, instrumental only (vocal style)
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Shares post-rock, post-metal (subgenres); absent, instrumental only (vocal style)
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