Trees Speak

Tucson, Arizona band Trees Speak look to 1970s Krautrock, synth drone, soundtrack music, and Bitches Brew-era Miles Davis for inspiration when putting together their dizzying experiments with electronics and song deconstruction. The group sought to confuse their listeners as much as they intrigued them, moving rapidly between ideas and sounds on their kaleidoscopic albums such as 2020's no wave-inspired Shadow Forms and 2021's all-encompassing Vertigo of Flaws: Emancipation of the Dissonance and Temperaments in Irrational Waveforms. The band's sixth album, 2023's Mind Maze, was another sprawling amalgamation of radical sounds ranging from avant-jazz to horror film scores, while 2024's TimeFold drew from musique concrète.