Instrumental post-rock act IF THESE TREES COULD TALK have released The Hidden Hand, their new full-length, out now on Metal Blade Records.
The album spans nine songs built around three guitars covering different areas of the sonic spectrum, with the band's sound feeling like a wordless conversation between the inner and outer world — music suited to a cinematic score or a space for meditation, healing, and clarity.
The record's title reflects a "fascination with the unexplained and unknowable especially in the areas of influence, control, and guidance," says drummer Zack Kelly, who co-founded the band with drummer-brother Cody Kelly in 2005, "symbols and signs hidden in plain sight only available to those who are looking."
Highlights include "Blurry Creatures," which embodies the band's raw nature through unrelenting riffs, epic highs and lows, ambient syncopated delays, and a battle chant; "Sea Of Glass," a smooth, optimistic post-rock landscape guided by uplifting clean guitars and heavy chorus hooks that resolve into a haunting, explosive payoff; and the seventh track, "Metanoia," which pulses with 1980s-tinged progressive delayed guitars, pounding drums, and a soaring guitar solo reminiscent of vintage David Gilmour.
Track listing:
- Archons
- Moon Machine
- Sea Of Glass
- Blurry Creatures
- Silence Between Mountains, Pt. 1
- Silence Between Mountains, Pt. 2
- Metanoia
- Flim
- Endlessly Connected
The Hidden Hand is out now on Metal Blade Records.