The idea of trying to tell a story without words might seem difficult, illogical or even ridiculous. But that idea is the foundation for the beautifully noisy music of the Japanese band Mono. And with four albums and numerous tours throughout the world, the latest of which brings them to the Troubadour on Monday night, it looks like the band’s plan is working.

Amplified, haunting and powerfully redundant, Mono’s latest album, “You Are There,” relies on drawn-out musical themes (the longest lasting more than 15 minutes), powerful chords and sweeping dynamics to develop its emotional and narrative elements. Rather than writing lyrics to be descriptive or even didactic, Mono instead creates luring and independently convincing music as its form of dialogue.

“We are trying to make music like that in film so that the music and the story are incorporated together. That’s the feeling we want to create in the album,” Taka Goto, guitarist and primary songwriter for the band, said through an interpreter.

Part of the cinematic approach to the album arises from one of Goto’s more significant influences, Danish director Lars von Trier’s film, “Breaking the Waves.” The film, which is set in a deeply religious part of Scotland, examines the emotional, religious and sexual difficulties within a marriage tainted by the husband’s sudden and traumatic physical injury.

The band’s other influences embody a similar mood – often extremely saddening but also hopeful and ultimately inspiring. The band cites musicians ranging in style from Miles Davis to Nico to Beethoven, as well as the films “Life is Beautiful” and “Schindler’s List.”

But Goto and the band also look internally for their narrative structure. The songs on “You Are There” all derive from a story Goto created about a woman’s journey through Japan as she follows a man she loves, only to have it end in a tragic death.

“The theme (of the album) is people seeing the value and the importance of life through death,” Goto said. “When you face death, that’s the way you can feel life.”

This duality is the theme not only of Mono’s latest album but also of its music in general. Mono consistently uses stories as guides for its music’s development of plot and emotion, creating powerful orchestral rock with heart-pounding drums behind tearing guitars. The sound usually begins as barely audible, builds, resides, and then repeats, becoming more of a journey than simply a collection of individual songs.

The undulation between these extremes recalls the sound of other recent post-rock instrumental bands such as Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. All of these employ repetitious musical themes and simple but intense sounds – rather than virtuosity or embellished ornamentation – to achieve their goals.

But just as in storytelling, bands blanketed under the same genre each establish their own personality. Though it takes its time to develop, Mono’s music is consistently engaging throughout the songs, layering the instruments to create a full and intricate sound but all the while keeping the composition itself simple and progressive ,so that it is difficult for the listener to get lost or lose interest.

“We play music as an orchestra, even though (Mono) is only a four-piece band,” Goto said. “The band is looking for some kind of outlet of some dialect; (an) expression of the explosion of this energy.”

The band found this outlet through its live shows, which only do further justice to the music captured on the album. The band relies heavily on these performances, which have taken it throughout Europe, Asia and North America, to help audiences fully experience the music.

Even in places outside of Japan, the band can connect with listeners through the music precisely because of this absence of a language barrier. For Mono, words are expendable; it is the music that matters most.

“We want (our music) to be something similar to what you feel after you read a great book or watch a good movie,” Goto said. “We try to create music that will leave listeners with (a) feeling that is indescribable in words.”