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Episode 4: If These Trees Could Talk - Above the Earth, Below the Sky

Hello and welcome to the fourth episode of DWTHAYLT, a series in which I'll show off some interesting pieces of music I believe deserve more attention.

Post-Rock can take over your life, believe it. Most of it doesn’t hold any form of lyrical structure or vocals and you’d be a fool to expect any sight of a chorus (even on some of the most accessible tracks that actually do contain some form of a voice). You never quite realise it’s your favourite genre until you go back to it and find that a whole host of new bands have been handed the torch from the forefathers of the genre and taken it to new heights. The music becomes addictive in the sense that you can either sit in awe at the beauty at hand or lose yourself to every track and awake an hour later, wondering what the hell just happened.

genre: post-rock

year: 2009

country: Ohio

price: $9

The album that introduced me to post-rock. Sparked love for a very solemn and expressive genre. When do the vocals kick in? They won't. Vocals aren't fitting what the instrumentation is trying to achieve here. To me it's about feels, it's like a journey. The genre as a whole and this album in particular. Clean guitar sounds for the somber parts and heavy distorted parts for the unsettling or energetic parts. Lots of intense tremolo picking.