If These Trees Could Talk (ITTCT) occupies a fascinating niche in the landscape of instrumental music. While often categorized under Post-Rock, their sound has always possessed a colossal, metal-adjacent weight—a tendency toward monolithic riffs and seismic crescendos that few of their peers can match.
In 2016, the Ohio quintet delivered their magnum opus, a chilling and breathtaking exploration of vast, uninhabitable space: The Bones of a Dying World. This is not mere background music; it is an epic sonic monument built upon ruin, demanding the listener’s full attention as it narrates the graceful, agonizing collapse of everything.
