Sad indie alt rockers CIRCUS TREES release “Wish I Was Fine” video, break down the emotional weight of wonderful new album

In Marlborough, Massachusetts, in a house that never quite learned silence, three sisters built a band out of childhood noise, teenage fracture, and early adult reckoning. Circus Trees have never tried to make their music digestible. Since their start in 2018, they’ve stayed closer to the marrow: grief, estrangement, trauma, healing—but always internal, always theirs. Their latest release This makes me sad, and I miss you arrives not as a coming-of-age story, but a document of surviving it. The entire album was self-produced at home. Not as a gimmick—just because that’s how they’ve always done it. Finola writes in her