The result is a well-produced, sonically thick, experimental post-rock album in the vein of God Speed You! Black Emperor and Mogwai.
Even while creating a tighter sound, they are careful not to sacrifice the freedom they’ve always cherished. Their decision to be an instrumental band was always motivated by the desire to create flexibility they needed as artists to express themselves.
“I have zero urge to associate words with anything we’re playing while we’re playing it. It’s the last thing on my mind. I’m not telling anybody who’s listening to it how to feel, nor is anyone in the band telling me what the song is about,” says Barrera.
They want their songs to be audio painting. Their process of composing art creates intense and passionate songs. But each person in the band feels something different about the song than everyone else. The audience senses the heavy emotion behind the music, but without words to explain it, they have no map to follow and can derive their own meaning from it.
“If they’re feeling the song why should we be the ones to say, ‘oh no, this is actually about this girl that broke up with me three years ago,’ when they were thinking it was a field that they were running in and then they tripped over a rock. It can be something entirely different. Art always resonates with people on a base level if they’re open to it,” says guitarist Syrus Fotovat.
