Through the Trees is the third full-length album by the Handsome Family,[5] released in 1998 on Carrot Top Records/Loose Music.

[7][8] The album was recorded in a makeshift warehouse loft space in a run-down part of Chicago, using equipment lent to the band by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, who was a friend and fan of their work.

They had met each other through Tweedy's wife Sue Miller, owner of the Chicago club Lounge Ax.

Rennie Sparks later told Folk Radio UK in an interview: "Jeff offered to let us borrow a bunch of gear he had but wasn’t using (an ADAT, a Mackie mixer, Lexicon reverb and a fabulous Tube-Tech compressor).

[9] It was praised in the magazine's music encyclopedia The Mojo Collection as "an American gothic country classic: dark twisted, blackly comic tales of death and decay, drink, desperation and dead dogs.