TREES SPEAK
Vertigo Of Flaws SOUL JAZZ
Space-age prog duo keep exploring the void
6/10
Vertigo Of Flaws is Trees Speak’s second album of 2021 and fourth in two years, so although they’ve not exactly run out of ideas, the ones left are sounding very familiar. But by now, you don’t come to Trees Speak for surprises. Here, the Tucson, Arizona pair dish out nuggets from their comfort zone –a spooked blend of John Carpenter, Jean-Michel Jarre and Cavern Of Anti-Matter – with consummate ease, dressing up hot-wired analogue jams such as “Mind Oscillation” and “Ionization” in 20th-century modernist theory to give it some weight. Still groovy, but these voyagers might want to plot a new course.