[Cover photo credit to Sondra Kelly]

In 2024, Instrumental Post-Rock band If These Trees Could Talk released the single, “Trail Of Whispering Giants,” the group’s first new music in eight years. Now, they will be releasing The Hidden Hand, a full album of nine songs set for release on July 10th, 2026, through Metal Blade Records.

As drummer and band-co-founder Zack Kelly explains:

“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.

This release means a lot to me not only spiritually but emotionally. There were a lot of up-and-downs during the making of this album and the journey took longer than anticipated, but the end goal is to make music that holds an emotional imprint, and I hope we have succeeded.”

The band focuses on “capturing sonic power” by utilizing three guitars to cover different areas of the spectrum.

Kelly elaborates:

It’s almost the same way an orchestra would be set up with the bass guitar covering cello, the rhythm guitars holding down the woodwind section and the lead guitarist covering the strings section. No matter who comes up with a riff or where it starts, the end product must always have these three components present especially when transitioning from clean to heavy tones.

Of the album’s first single, “Blurry Creatures”, Kelly notes:

The track embodies the raw nature of the IF THESE TREES COULD TALK sound by incorporating unrelenting riffs with epic highs and lows, ambient syncopated delays and a battle chant that stimulates the senses.