TREES and New Achievements

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Travelling, on the road as I am, I am able to hear Denver’s music on the weekend’s when I’m home, absorb it through the week, and then represent the feelings later. Sometimes the feelings change. Sometimes they remain. But now, in Pittsburgh, miles from the memories, and with new sensations in concert, with the success of late season hockey and early season baseball brewing in an all-around sports-successful town, I feel the importance of achievement weighing heavy on me. The rain, the dour of grimacing faces, the hardness of character that is resolute in seemingly small victories manifest in everyday things – I can’t help but let that shade the memories and ringing sounds from a band last weekend. The band TREES is clockwork of murky precision and gravity that is not easily made by any band, let alone a Denver start-up. I hesitate to reference another blog, but the Reverb blog was aglow in Monday’s review. I echo that sentiment and add that the dynamic in rhythmic character is worth the price of admission alone. That, more than anything, is what local deserving bands need. The turnout at Friday night’s show at Three Kings was a welcome turnout for a space hog like me; however, despite the paltry attendance TREES played like they were filling an amphitheater. Epic instrumental metal is not for everyone – but in this arrangement, perhaps it should be.

Bonus: Drummer Danny McCarthy’s long-stick, and surprisingly lithe power technique, proves the reason why drums are, and might always be, placed center on stage.