“The Hidden Hand” is the stunning new full-length from instrumental Post-Rock sensations If These Trees Could Talk, out now on Metal Blade Records.
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“The Hidden Hand” boasts nine stellar and plainly provocative songs with the band focusing on capturing sonic power. Utilizing three guitars to cover different areas of the spectrum, the If These Trees Could Talk experience feels like a slow, wordless conversation between the inner and outer world best consumed like the score to a cinematic picture or a space for meditation, healing, and clarity.
The instrumental odyssey was so named because of 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.”
Longtime fans and newcomers alike will thrill to tracks like “Blurry Creatures,” which embodies the raw nature of If These Trees Could Talk via unrelenting riffs with epic highs and lows, Ambient syncopated delays and a battle chant that stimulates the senses. “Sea Of Glass” offers a smooth optimistic Post-Rock landscape guided uplifting clean guitars and heavy chorus hooks which pay off with a haunting and explosive resolution. The seventh cut on The Heavy Hand, “Metonoia,” has 1980s vibes pulsing with progressive delayed guitars, pounding drums and a soaring guitar solo reminiscent of vintage David Gilmour.
“The Hidden Hand” is available now on CD and digital formats as well as vinyl in the following color variants:
– Lava Red Marble (US)
– Solar Flare Marble (US)
– Purple Galaxy Marble (US)
– 180g Black (EU – Ltd. 1000)
– Tropical Sunset Marble (Orange/Purple/White) (EU – Ltd. 500)
– Orange Oxblood Merged (EU – Ltd. 250)
Purchase “The Hidden Hand” here: https://www.metalblade.com/ifthesetreescouldtalk/
Watch the band’s previously released video for “Blurry Creatures” HERE and “Sea Of Glass” video HERE.
Tracklist:
01. Archons
02. Moon Machine
03. Sea Of Glass
04. Blurry Creatures
05. Silence Between Mountains, Pt. 1
06. Silence Between Mountains, Pt. 2
07. Metanoia
08. Flim
09. Endlessly Connected
Lineup:
Cody Kelly / Guitar
Zack Kelly / Drums
Tom Fihe / Bass
Jeff Kalal / Guitar
Mike Socrates / Guitar